Social media is rotting kids’ brains — and especially hurting their memory and vocabulary: study

New research suggests that social media isn’t just feeding your kid the latest memes — it may actually be messing with their ...

Social media could be shaping how kids’ brains learn—and not for the better

Researchers found that even limited social media use can hurt children’s ability to focus and retain information—echoing what ...
Education Week

Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

Study links excessive social media use with lowered academic aptitude

Children aged 9-13 who spent more time on social media performed worse on reading, memory and language tests two years later, ...
LAist on MSN

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...
Daily Jang

Prolonged social media use may reduce intelligence, study

A recent study revealed that social media use could be subtly harming brain development in tweens.According to research ...
MedPage Today on MSN

Increasing Social Media Use in Preteens May Be Hurting Cognition Too

Overall, this study "suggests that increasing social media use comes at a developmental cost, strengthening the argument that ...
Arab Times

Kids who use more social media perform worse on reading and memory tests: study

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 14: Children who increase their social media use in the preteen years perform worse on reading, vocabulary, ...