Children's social media use has ‘trivial’ effect on happiness – study

Only girls reduced their use of social media as a result of feeling discontented, the study noted. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PATime spent on social media has only a “trivial” impact on life satisfaction among adolescents, say researchers. The team behind a new study say time spent on social media has only a small negative effect on how happy boys and girls feel about life, and that only girls reduced their use of social media as a result of feeling discontented. While the team found