New study says the effects of social media on adolescent well being are tiny

Social media has limited effects on teenage life satisfaction with family, friends and school life all having a greater impact on wellbeing, according to a new study from Oxford Internet Institute study on teenage social media use and life satisfaction.  Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, used an eight-year survey of UK households (Understanding Society, part of the UK Household Longitudinal Study) to study how long teenagers spent using social media on a normal school day and their corresponding life satisfaction ratings. This is the first large-scale and in-depth study testing not only whether adolescents