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Imagine waking up one day and realizing that despite all the group chats, all the likes, all the notifications, and every “connection” you’ve collected online…you still feel alone. That isn’t an exaggeration. It’s the everyday reality for millions of young adults across the U.S. right now. Loneliness has quietly become one of the most serious mental health challenges of our time, affecting everything from our emotional stability to our physical health. And whether you’re 18,

Imagine being 15 and hearing that your social media accounts, your Instagram, your TikTok, your Snap streaks, your YouTube channel, could disappear overnight. That’s the reality for over one million teens  in Australia as the country prepares to launch the world’s first nationwide under-16 social media ban on December 10. And whether you’re 18, 25, or 35…this moment is a huge turning point in how we think about online safety, digital rights, and the role social platforms play

There’s a new wave of controversy around Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp’s parent company), and it’s all centered on one thing: mental health . A recently filed class-action lawsuit claims Meta knew  their platforms were harming users, especially young people, and allegedly chose to bury that information instead of making it public. Where did all this come from? According to the lawsuit, filed by multiple U.S. school districts against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snapchat, M

If you’ve spent any time on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts this year, you’ve probably felt it too: social media doesn’t feel like it did even three years ago. The way we scroll, the platforms we trust, the communities we hang out in, everything is shifting in real time. And we finally have numbers to prove it, thanks to the latest 2025 data from the Pew Research Center. The platforms we think are “dying” aren’t really dying… and the ones we think are “taking over