Instagram users may overestimate the extent to which they are addicted to the platform, according to research conducted on 1,204 U.S. adults published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that for most social media users, excessive use is driven by habit rather than genuine addiction.
Instagram users overestimate their social media addiction, study suggests
Reader’s Picks
-
Researchers say today’s AI platforms often default to common biases and stereotypes when prompted to generate images of people, including [...]
-
In a re-evaluation of Hockett’s foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like “arbitrariness,” “duality of patterning,” and “displacement”—an [...]
-
Whether it is a whole friendship group migrating to using iPhones or a swath of classmates wanting the latest Lululemon [...]