19
Mar
2026

World Happiness Report highlights social media’s negative impact, ranks Finland as happiest country

measurement cause and effect policy and interventions the future of wellbeing

The Washington Post

Young people who use social media for less than one hour per day report the highest levels of well-being, researchers said, higher than those who do not use social media at all. But adolescents are spending an estimated average of 2.5 hours a day on social media.

“It is clear that we should look as much as possible to put the ‘social’ back into social media,” De Neve said.