Major Facebook Users Are Worse at Making Decisions

New research finds that people that overuse social media have the same kind of impaired decision making found among drug addicts. Angelo Moleele/Unsplash

New research shows a connection between social media use and impaired risky decision-making.

“Around one-third of humans on the planet are using social media, and some of these people are displaying maladaptive, excessive use of these sites,” says Dar Meshi, lead author and assistant professor at Michigan State University. “Our findings will hopefully motivate the field to take social media overuse seriously.”