{"id":229121,"date":"2026-01-16T01:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/social-media-not-gaming-tied-to-rising-attention-problems-in-teens-new-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:27:01","slug":"social-media-not-gaming-tied-to-rising-attention-problems-in-teens-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/social-media-not-gaming-tied-to-rising-attention-problems-in-teens-new-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/social-media-not-gaming-tied-to-rising-attention-problems-in-teens-new-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all screen time is equal. A study of 8,000 teens reveals that while gaming doesn\u2019t harm focus, social media use specifically predicts increased inattentiveness\u2014potentially explaining the global rise in ADHD diagnoses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all screen time is equal. A study of 8,000 teens reveals that while gaming doesn\u2019t harm focus, social media use specifically predicts increased inattentiveness\u2014potentially explaining the global rise in ADHD diagnoses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}