Here's The Truth On The Effects Instagram Has On Your Brain | Glamour UK

Scary stuff.

Put your phone down and pay attention to what I’m about to say. Because trust me, by the time I’m through, you may not ever want to pick it up again. That might be hard though; on average, we check our smartphones between 85 and 101 times a day. In 2019, we spent a global average of two hours 23 minutes every day on social media – 53 minutes of which was taken up solely by Instagram , the app that celebrated its tenth birthday last October, and has just announced it's giving users the option to hide likes. The new feature, announced on 26th May, includes two settings: one that allows us to tur

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