Hi, we're here from curiosity

to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why social media may not be as bad for mental health

as we thought, why the Striseand effects says censoring

information will probably backfire, and why tailgating at the light

won't get you through any faster. Let's get you through some curiosity.

New research suggests that social media might not be as universally bad for mental health as we thought.

Now we've covered a lot of research on this podcast into how social media can be bad for you.

And that research still holds true

if you're part of the demographic those studies focused on,

which is usually teens and young adults.

This new study focused on older adults and for them it seems

social media might not be all that harmful. In fact it could even lower levels of

psychological distress.

This study from June 2019 was published in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication,

and it was led by Dr. Keith Hampton from the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University. He used data from the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University.

He used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, or the PSID.

That's a U.S. survey that started in 1968, which makes it the longest running

longitudinal household survey in the world.

He was able to use that data to generalize

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