Ten Myths and Warranted Claims about social media by Hall, 2024, a 🧪 🧵
From https://doi.org/10.2196/59585 1/11 🧵
From https://doi.org/10.2196/59585 1/11 🧵
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Warranted claim 1: Time spent on social media does not have a strong effect on the well-being of its users.
(Hall, 2024, p. 2) 2/11 🧵
Warranted claim 2: Experts disagree on whether social media addiction exists, what the diagnostic criteria are, and how it should be measured.
(Hall, 2024, p. 2) 3/11 🧵
Warranted claim 3: Over time, declines in well-being are associated with increased social media use.”
(Hall, 2024, p. 3) 4/11 🧵
Warranted claim 4: Preexisting vulnerabilities (eg, poverty, mental health, lack of family support) are associated with both adolescent social media use and adolescent ill-being. (Hall, 2024, p. 4) 5/11 🧵
Warranted claim 5: Once the primary predictors of well and ill-being are accounted for, social media use is a negligible factor in explaining variance in well- and ill-being.
(Hall, 2024, p. 5) 6/11 🧵
Warranted claim 6: Longitudinal studies don't support that the adoption of mobile or SM preceded/caused declines in adolescent MH or loneliness (p 5)