When social media use among teens substitutes for face-to-face socializing, the underlying cause may not be the social media. Owen Waygood, Lars E. Olsson, Ayako Taniguchi and Margareta Friman explain.

This is fantastic, and makes a whole lot of sense.

In a cross-cultural study of children and adolescents in Canada, Japan and Sweden, Waygood, Olsson, Taniguchi and Friman find that where children can safely and conveniently navigate their communities, social media use often supplements frequent face-to-face sociability.

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