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  STATISTA: Social Media and Teen Mental Health by  Felix Richter,   Jun 30, 2025 In 2010, Mashable declared June 30 as Social Media Day, intended to celebrate the impact of social media on communication, connection and culture. Originally launched to recognize the positive impact that platforms like Facebook, Twitter (now X) or Instagram have on human interaction around the world, we’re marking the occasion by acknowledging some of the downsides of social media’s unstoppable rise over the past two decades. Specifically, we’re looking at its impact on children and teens, whose lives have changed fundamentally since social media platforms became ubiquitous. According to a survey of U.S. teens conducted by the Pew Research Center in the fall of 2024, 48 percent of Americans aged 13 to 17 now say that social media has a mostly negative effect on people of their age, up from just 32 percent two years earlier. Only 11 percent of teenagers in the U.S. now describe the impact o...

  US Catholicism; 47% of Adults Have Connection   BIG TENT CATHOLICISM – PEW STYLE   US  Adults The Following Are Mutually Exclusive Categories Total 20% Catholic : They say they are Catholic when asked about their present religion. 20%     The following do NOT identify as Catholic when asked about their present religion     27% 9% “ Cultural Catholics ”: They  say “yes” if they consider themselves Catholic in any way ( ethnically, culturally, or family ties ) but do not identify as Catholic religiously   29% 9% “ Connected to Catholics ” they say “yes” if they have a Catholic parent, spouse or partner or ever attend Catholic Mass. But do not identify as Catholics religiously or as Cultural Catholics or as Former Catholics 38% ...