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Study links children’s social media use with anxiety and depression in teenage years

Children who are on social media for more than three hours a day are more likely to develop depression and anxiety as teenagers, according to research. Experts said the impact was likely to be linked to a lack of sleep caused by using social media late at night, and that the link to depression was more pronounced in girls. Researchers at Imperial College London analysed data from a study of cognition, adolescents and mobile phones, set up in 2014, based on responses from 2,350 children at 31 schools across London. ….[READ]