Heavy social media use hurts the well-being of young people, especially teenage girls in Englishspeaking countries and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published on March 19th.
 　The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, also found that Finland is the happiest country in the world for the ninth year in a row, with other Nordic countries such as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway also in the top 10.
 　It highlighted how happiness levels among people under 25 in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have dropped significantly over the past decade, and suggested that spending long hours on social media is a key reason for this.
 　Young people who use social media for less than one hour per day report the highest levels of well-being, researchers said, higher than those who do not use social media at all.

　根據3 月19 日發布的《2026 年世界幸福報告》顯示，過度使用社群媒體會損害年輕人的幸福感，尤其是英語系國家及西歐國家的青少女。
　在這份由牛津大學幸福研究中心發布的年度報告中也發現，芬蘭已連續9 年蟬聯全球最幸福快樂國家，而其他北歐國家如冰島、丹麥、瑞典和挪威等也躋身前十名。
　從報告中可明顯看出，過去十年間，美國、加拿大、澳洲和紐西蘭等國家25歲以下族群的幸福感顯著下降。報告指出，長時間瀏覽社群媒體是造成這個現象的關鍵因素。
　研究人員表示，每天使用社群媒體時間少於一小時的年輕人幸福感最高，甚至高於完全不使用社群媒體的年輕人。