Social Media Bytes: Daily Associations Between Social Media Use and Everyday Memory Failures Across the Adult Life Span.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The prevalence of social media use in daily life is increasing; however, little is known about its cognitive costs and/or benefits. Social media use may help to offload memory to an external resource as well as to facilitate social relations, which could bolster or hinder everyday memory. Further, the relationship between social media use and memory may be moderated by age such that associations-whether positive or negative-could be exacerbated among older adults due to age-related declines.

Methods

Using an 8-day daily diary study from the Midlife in the United States Refresher cohort (n = 782, 25-75 years), multilevel models examined the impact of daily social media use, age, and their interaction on same-day and next-day memory failures.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Sharifian N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7021445 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature