A 2025 Scientific Reports meta-analysis covering nearly 5,000 participants found social media abstinence produced no significant change in positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction — a result that directly contradicts the cultural story most people who delete their accounts believe they are living
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Deleting social media is often narrated as a clean break. The feed disappears, attention returns, and ordinary life supposedly becomes vivid again. It is an emotionally persuasive story. It is also far more certain than the evidence allows.
A 2025 Scientific Reports systematic review and meta-analysis pooled ten studies involving 4,674 adults. Across 38 effect sizes, temporarily abstaining from social media produced no statistically significant change in positive affect, negative affect or life
A 2025 Scientific Reports systematic review and meta-analysis pooled ten studies involving 4,674 adults. Across 38 effect sizes, temporarily abstaining from social media produced no statistically significant change in positive affect, negative affect or life
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