“…Our finding is particularly relevant in today's world, where prolonged periods of reduced face-to-face social activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has led, with alarming alacrity, to an uptick of intensive social media usage (Depoux et al, 2020;Marengo et al, 2022). The accumulated detrimental effects of heavy social media usage during the pandemic have already been shown to aggravate loneliness, anxiety and depression, and could worsen in the next few years (Ashiru et al (2022); Gao et al, 2020;Hammad & Alqarni, 2021;Helm et al, 2022;Jiang, 2021). An appreciation of the various facets of social media activities would be needed to fully uncover the links between social media usage and mental health.…”