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Young people are passive observers, not active participants, on social media platforms, studies show. The ideal of the big, open digital town square has definitively collapsed, a researcher says.

Young people are ashamed of their excessive use of screens and social media

Like most other young people, 19-year-old Ellen Hollingbery wants to spend her time on something that offers more value and knowledge than doomscrolling on social media. But it’s hard to break a habit you were born into. Foto: Loui Pedersen
Like most other young people, 19-year-old Ellen Hollingbery wants to spend her time on something that offers more value and knowledge than doomscrolling on social media. But it’s hard to break a habit you were born into. Foto: Loui Pedersen
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When Ellen Hollingbery comes home from high school or has the weekend off, she doesn’t spend her free time the way she’d actually like to.

She’d love to go on more walks. Work out. Maybe do something creative – draw or paint. But all too often, another activity ends up swallowing the spare hours in her 19-year-old life.

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