Social media usage among teens is more prevalent than ever before. In recent years, researchers have begun investigating how much social media affects teen weight concerns and body image issues. A new ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

More schools and governments are turning to tech bans to try to keep kids off screens. Do they work? By Natasha Singer I cover tech, teens and schools. Bullying. Sextortion. Body-shaming. Self-harm.

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

This is important because? With a full-featured storefront on the web, apps become more accessible to broader audiences, including those not on Apple devices. What to watch for? Will Apple eventually ...

The web-based App Store has a new homepage, but you can’t use it to install apps on your iPhone or Mac. The web-based App Store has a new homepage, but you can’t use it to install apps on your iPhone ...

Rita Alan first downloaded the fitness app Strava in 2023 to start tracking her runs before a half marathon. But when a follow request from her crush in her college physics class popped up on her ...

She grew up in the One Direction and Marvel fandoms in the early 2010s. This was back when people posted photos of lattes using the Valencia filter on Instagram, and Twitter was still Twitter, a place ...

Rudy Fraser's Blacksky is mentioned as a new wave social media app that focuses on depth, rather than breadth. "[Blacksky] targets minorities and marginalized individuals and has an algorithm that can ...

Last Friday night, close to a hundred of us gathered around candle-lit picnic blankets with a makeshift stage at the head of the grass. We know, that’s probably not your idea of a typical night at ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...