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Social media use may cause depression among young people, new study finds

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83% Informative

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco used data from a major federal study that follows thousands of children over a period of several years .

The researchers analyzed what happened when 11,876 tween and teen participants used social media over three years .

They found that young people who had higher social media use than their individual mean reported greater depressive symptoms in subsequent years .

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83

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84

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24

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

57

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long-living

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