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Helping or Hurting? The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health and Well-Being

Submitted by tcrease on November 10th, 2025 4:52 PM
Date: 
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 7:00 PM
Location: 

Online via ZOOM [1]
 

 

The McMaster Alumni Webinar series presents: Helping or Hurting? The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health and Well-Being

Over five billion people use social media worldwide, yet social scientists have reached little consensus on how it influences mental health and well-being. In this talk, Dr. Tara Marshall will draw on the Active-Passive Model of Social Media Use to illustrate that the impact of social media depends less on the amount of time spent using it and more on the ways that it is used.

Visit the webpage for more information and to register.  [2]
 

 


Source URL:https://ugra.ca/events/2025/11/helping-or-hurting-impact-social-media-mental-health-and-well-being

Links
[1] https://alumlc.org/mcmaster/48137/register [2] https://alumlc.org/mcmaster/48137?uMarketingSource=_ALC_ME_11_6