Social media use exceeding two hours daily directly causes measurable increases in clinical depression among adolescents.

Submitted by ◎ stannebraska (329) 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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This claim asserts a causal relationship between heavy social media usage (defined as more than two hours per day) and clinically diagnosable depression in teenagers, suggesting that the platform use itself is a direct causative factor rather than merely correlational.