How does social media affect us? What happens in our brains and how does it affect our wellbeing? In LIKE, research on social media is reviewed in an easily accessible and objective way, in order to give you knowledge about exactly how these platforms work, and why they do. Topics such as biological processes used by social media, psychological tricks built into the applications that manipulate our attention, and the impact of social media on wellbeing and memory, are discussed in detail. Should we have phones in school? And can social media even change our brains?
