Mental health effects of social media for users in the U.S. 2024
According to a March 2024 survey conducted in the United States, 32 percent of adults reported feeling that social media had neither a positive nor negative effect on their own mental health. Only seven percent of social media users said that online platforms had a very positive effect on their mental health, whilst the 12 percent of users said it had a very negative effect on them. Furthermore, 22 percent of respondents said social media had a somewhat negative effect on their mental health.