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Question 1. Some have suggested. that social media may have an indirect effect on happiness by displacing other activities
Question 2. Heavy social-media use seems to disturb adolescent sleep patterns
Question 3. "There's been absolutely hundreds of these studies, almost all showing pretty small effects," said Jeff Hancock, a behavioral psychologist at Stanford University who has conducted a meta-analysis of 226 such studies.
Question 4. "Just in terms of scale, it's fantastic," Dr. Hancock said. The rich age-based analysis, he added, is a major improvement over previous studies, which tended to lump all adolescents together.
Question 5. The study found that during early adolescence, heavy use of social media predicted lower life-satisfaction ratings one year later. For girls, this sensitive period was between ages 11 and 13, whereas for boys it was 14 and 15