Overview
- Anses released a collective scientific assessment on January 13 evaluating health effects of social-media use in adolescents.
- The review reports associations between platform exposure and depressive symptoms in young people.
- The agency also links social-media use to increased risk of eating disorders among teens.
- Roughly half of French adolescents spend two to five hours per day on a smartphone, indicating substantial exposure.
- The findings reframe screen-time concerns by emphasizing social-network impacts rather than purely physiological risks.