Does Using Digital Technology Lower or Raise Dementia Risk?

Since the exploding popularity of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, people today are more connected than ever before. Then as social media became mainstream in the early 2000s, today people of all ages spend hours of every day — two hours and 24 minutes on average, to be exact — scrolling through Facebook and Instagram feeds, and watching TikTok videos. Past studies have discussed the potential health hazards of using too much technology, including a potential negative impact on brain function.