The high numbers of Generation Zers who report negative effects from social media and who use it for several hours per day are unsurprising.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote recently for the New York Times on surveys he and his colleagues conducted asking Gen Z adults about their experiences with social media. In the article, he explains that 62% of Gen Zers use social media for four hours or more per day, that the groups reporting negative effects from social media are largely female and LGBT, and that significant shares of Gen Zers wish certain social media platforms did not exist, with Twitter at 50% and TikTok at 47%.