Does social media abstinence work?

The findings thus suggest that temporarily stepping away from social media may not be the most optimal approach to enhance individual well-being, emphasizing the need for further research on alternative disconnection strategies.

I really wouldn’t read into this much. This paper is more a study of the lengths to which the social sciences have to go to convince themselves they’re not falling into the scientific ritual than anything else. But I think it’s good evidence for just how ambivalent the literature is about social media. Whatever the problem is, it’s not just social media.