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The study showed that higher levels of social media use were related to higher levels of loneliness. This finding is in line with the results of previous surveys conducted in earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (Bonsaksen, Schoultz, et al., 2021; Geirdal, Ruffolo, et al., 2021; Thygesen et al., 2022). The consistency of findings across studies using a variety of mental health-related outcomes supports the notion that high levels of social media use relate not only to loneliness, but to mental distress more in general. It also supports the notion that these associations are relatively stable across time – or, at least, across the extraordinary times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Paradoxically, ‘social’ media appears, in effect, to hinder rather than promote people’s social wellbeing. The underlying mechanisms may concern the addictive properties of social media (Hawi & Samaha, 2017; Verduyn et al., 2015), so people who have problems with self-regulation may be less able to ‘log off’ and experience social media fatigue and/or social media addiction as a result (Islam et al., 2020). It may also concern people’s perception of social media content, which is often in the form of texts and photos conveying a positive message of joy, fulfilment, adventure, or success of some kind. More time spent digesting other people’s happiness on social media may accelerate one’s own feelings of loneliness and distress, possibly fueled by envy, as shown in a recent study (Wang et al., 2020). In the opposite case, observing social media posts displaying the challenges of others without being able to provide direct support may also contribute to increased feelings of loneliness.