Mental health experts, regulators, and many internet users themselves have called out the damage that social media can do to mental health. Must it addict, inflame, and depress us? A new social ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Idealist nerds have a long history of giving terribly confusing names to potentially revolutionary technology. So it ...

Instagram is the worst social media network for mental health and wellbeing, according to a recent survey of almost 1,500 teens and young adults. While the photo-based platform got points for ...

Facebook, X, and Instagram are full of viral crap. Email lets me actually talk to my friends. The words "social network" imply that such tools will connect you with the people in your life. That's not ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new.