Young people in Japan grapple with social media addiction


People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in 2013. - Photo: Reuters file

TOKYO: Young people ages 10 to 29 appear to have the highest rate of pathological social media use, with 6% exhibiting signs of a serious addiction, according to a survey by an addiction treatment institution in Kanagawa Prefecture.

The 6% figure for the age group equates to about 1.4 million people. Other age groups had rates around 0% to 1%, highlighting the growing severity of social media dependency among the young generation.

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