The Effects of Social Media on Adolescents’ Daily Lives

To investigate the effects of social media on adolescents’ daily lives, the research recruited 50 students from a Chinese university and asked them to finish a carefully designed questionnaire. The research found that the overuse of social media will lead to spending less time communicating with others, causing harm to relationships. Moreover, this condition may be due to high pressure in school and frequent negative feelings.

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