23
May
2026

Excessive social media ‘negatively impacts wellbeing’

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BBC News

The World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, found that excessive use of social media negatively impacts our wellbeing.

“If you use social media for an hour a day, that’s great, you’re being connected,” says Michael Plant, Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre.

“But the report did show a correlation between, the more time you spend on social media the greater loss of wellbeing.”