Daily social media use beyond 2.5 hours tracks with depression, analysis finds

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Daily social media use beyond 2.5 hours tracks with depression. Researchers found that social media increasingly became a bigger predictor of depression during the 11 years studied, eclipsing many other factors, like TV viewing or web surfing

Daily social media use beyond 2.5 hours tracks with depression, analysis finds

Social media use is a better predictor of depression than many other common factors, such as one's job and educational background or time spent on other activities, such as playing video games, surfing the web or watching TV.