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CNN Health partnered with child development
experts to do a study on the amount of time teenagers
spend on social media. The study had over 200
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eight graders participate from eight different schools
across six different states throughout the country.
These students (and their parents) allowed the
researchers to register their Instagram, Twitter, and
Facebook profiles to an electronic archiving company

CNN contracted. Over a six-month period, these
researchers analyzed 150,000 social media posts. The
study found that the more teens use their social media
accounts, the more distressed they could become and
found that the heaviest social media culprits checked
their feeds more than 100 times per day. CNN Health
also reported that the average teenager’s daily time

spent on social media is more than their time spent
sleeping or in school—a whopping nine hours! 78
Naval Ravikant, a major Twitter investor and
co-founder/former-CEO of AngelList, sums up
the dangers of social media best with this quote, “I
don’t think modern science has good answers here.
I think that the modern world is actually really bad.
The modern world is full of distractions. Things like
Twitter and Facebook are not making you happy.

They are making you unhappy. You are essentially
playing a game that’s created by the creators of those
systems, and yes, it can be a useful game once in a

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