People who spend more than an hour a day, or 30 times per week, browsing through social media often don't get a good night's sleep. A study from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine found adults who use social media more have a greater likelihood of having sleep disturbances. Nearly 1,800 adults between the ages of 19 and 32 were surveyed on their levels of social media use and how often they had disturbed, or restless sleep. Researchers found 30 percent of participants had high levels of sleep disturbance. “What we found is that greater social media use per day and greater frequency of checking social media-use sites were both associated with higher levels of sleep disturbance,” said Dr. Jessica Levenson, lead author and a post-doctoral researcher at Pitt’s Department of Psychiatry. Researchers looked at the most popular forms of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other sites, and found correlations between when they're using social media and how it
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