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media information: Taking a snapshot of the anxiety felt by young people today and concluding that a whole generation is at risk because of social media ignores more noteworthy social changes.' Keith Hampton, professor of media and information at Michigan State University Taking a snapshot of the anxiety felt by young people today and concluding that a whole generation is at risk because of social media ignores more noteworthy social changes, such as the lingering effects of the Great Recession, the rise in single-child families, older and more protective parents, more kids going to college and rising student debt, he said, according to Market Watch. In a study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Computer Mediated-Communication, Hampton analyzed 2015/2016 data from 13,000 adult relationships in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which is widely regarded as the world's longest-running household survey. Social-media sites like Facebook FB, -0.33% which has 2.38 billion users worldwide, Instagram, Snapchat SNAP, -0.59% and Twitter TWTR, 0.55% make it easier to maintain relationships, access health information, improve mental health and even avoid serious psychological distress, according to a new study by Keith Hampton, professor of media and information at Michigan State University. That survey includes a series of questions about social-media platforms and psychological distress. Social-media users are 63% less likely to experience serious psychological distress, Hampton said. What Hampton found runs contrary to a raft of studies that have suggested a relationship between social media and isolation and depression. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.