How increasing social media use affects the brain

Take a moment where you are right now and look around you. Chances are that people have a device in their hands. They are staring at that device and are not engaged in the world around them. Most likely many of them are on a social media platform. A global snapshot of social media use is astounding. More than half of the world (59%) uses social media and, according to Smart Insights, 227 million additional new users came online in the past year. Statistics show that people are spending an average…