While most of us believe that technostress is caused by social media a study found that time spent on social media does not directly cause anxiety and depression in teenagers. The amount of time teenagers spend on social networking sites has risen by 62.5 per cent since 2012 and continues to grow. Just last year the average time teenagers spent on social media was estimated at 2.6 hours per day. Critics have claimed that more screen time is increasing depression and anxiety in teenagers. However new research led by Sarah Coyne a professor of family life at Brigham Young University