{"id":3501,"date":"2025-10-10T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/social-media-posting-late-at-night-puts-mental-health-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:08:07","slug":"social-media-posting-late-at-night-puts-mental-health-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/social-media-posting-late-at-night-puts-mental-health-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media posting late at night puts mental health at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-10 15:08:04<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>People who post on social media late at night are more likely to experience poor mental health.<BR><br \/>\nAn overall examination of 18,288 tweets and retweets over a span of 15 years correlates with long-term health data in the West of England, indicating that individuals posting overnight are more likely to experience poor mental wellbeing and report higher symptoms of\u00a0depression and anxiety. \u00a0<BR><br \/>\nThe study shows users whose posting habits averaged from 11pm to 5am to have &#8220;meaningfully worse mental wellbeing than those who tweeted during the daytime&#8221;, linking the source to sleep displacement, &#8220;cognitive arousal&#8221;, and an inhibition in melatonin production caused by the blue light of your screen.<BR><br \/>\nDaniel Joinson, lead author of the research at the University of Bristol, said: &#8220;Whilst social media is often treated like a monolith, its impact on mental health will depend on the exact behaviours the user performs and the experiences they have on these platforms.<BR><br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;Our paper highlights the potential harm of a very specific behaviour: nighttime content posting.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Research like ours could help inform interventions or legislation that aim to deter harmful social media use, whilst enabling beneficial behaviours or experiences.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-10 15:08:04 People who post on social media late at night are more likely to experience poor mental health. An overall examination of 18,288 tweets and retweets over a span&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}