What is an NMK?” Deacon Marques Silva asked a room of parents. “Not my kids,” he answered, quoting a phrase he often hears ...

Many young social media users also appear desperate to end their addiction, which is fed by the fear of missing out. One ...

"The hatred of women is everywhere and dictates the way men behave online," one young Gen Z person said in a recent poll when asked about misogyny on social media, while a young man said, "it isn’t ...

The private boarding school radically overhauled its smartphone policy last year after noticing a decline in the school’s ...

Area mental health specialists say it’s best for parents to set rules and expectations about cell phone and social media use when their children begin using them. “It needs to start as soon as you ...

Let’s be honest: the warnings are not wrong. But they’re also not enough. We keep yelling “Don’t do it!” — while the tech and telecom industries continue to innovate, market, and subsidize these ...

Over half of the ninth-grade girls at Beis Chana Lubavitch Educational Center (LEC) in Miami have committed to living without smartphones or social media for the school year — a bold decision made ...

Over the past ten years or so (not just during the pandemic) the most striking change in daily life on college campuses is what has disappeared. For decades, college quadrangles, hallways, and ...

Rural school kids are reaching for smartphones more for reels than for homework, even though ASER data shows high digital ...

Roughly 200 million Americans—about 79 percent of the population—own a smartphone, comScore says. Since 2010, the amount using those devices to follow political campaigns on social media has more than ...

Despite fears that constant phone scrolling harms mental health, new research shows that smartphones have almost no measurable effect on mood, challenging one of today’s most persistent digital-age ...