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Does social media abstinence work
10 Apr 2025
Does social media abstinence work?
The findings thus suggest that temporarily stepping away from social media may not be the most optimal approach to enhance individual well-being, emphasizing the need for further research on alternative disconnection strategies.
I really wouldn’t read into this much. This paper is more a study of the lengths to which the social sciences have to go to convince themselves they’re not falling into the scientific ritual than anything else. But I think it’s good evidence for just how ambivalent the literature is about social media. Whatever the problem is, it’s not just social media.
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