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.
