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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse
(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)
A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew
Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American
adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the
site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular,
with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform.
For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a
photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew
first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of
Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an
Instagram account.
Americans are also spending more time than ever
on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence
that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A
paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx,
Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of
Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10
minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression,
anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link
between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely
due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users
compare themselves to others and come away with lower
evaluations of themselves.
(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)
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