Tag Archives: social media

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been churning out articles on psychology studies pertaining to social media. This post is essentially aimed at aggregating all the studies and the results and to find out the bigger picture — understanding the different forces at play, the driving factors and positive and …

There is a notion that young people care less about privacy on social media and do not think twice before sharing personal details. Is it true? And, if the one of the main reason for such behavior is age, are older ones less likely to share private information? A study …

Adolescents with over 300 friends on Facebook have higher levels of cortisol circulating in their bodies, a study has found. On the other hand, it also said socialising on Facebook — involving liking, sharing of content produced by ‘friends’ — reduces the cortisol levels. And, for the uninitiated, here’s cortisol’s …

Any act of terror in a public place is usually followed by a series of pictures and videos being distributed across social media channels. And that invites two kinds of comments: one, that is self-righteous and questions the lack of attempt from the person responsible for filming the event; and …

Bullying has always existed. But in the last decade, with increasing access to Internet and proliferation of smartphones, it has take a new form. Psychologists are calling it cyberbullying. And it has become worse in many ways. Cyberbullying can be defined as the act of “willful and repeated harm inflicted …

Extensive use of social media has an effect on insomnia and depression, according to a research paper published at Nottingham University. The paper was aimed at finding two things: “whether the use of social media has a negative impact on the mental well being of the users and whether there …

We’ve all been through bouts of depression at some point in our lives. Sometimes, there’s no reason for it at all, we just lose it and get bogged down and it persists for sometime before ‘normalcy’ returns. For some, this cycle is frequent and for others it seems a lot …

Jacob Sartorius, a social media teen sensation, was recently in the news for the wrong reasons. And for the initiated, here are some facts on him. He’s a 13 year-old boy who’s got an incredible number of ‘followers’ on all his social media accounts. According to this post by Mashable, he …