BY BETH GREGORY

THE twenty four hour social media link is affecting teenagers for the worse, researchers say.

Glasgow University researchers questioned 467 teenagers about their use of social media and state of mind.

Lead researcher Dr Heather Cleland Woods and Holly Scott asked the teenagers about how and when they used social media and found many felt a pressure to respond immediately to texts or posts.

Sleep quality, self-esteem, anxiety, depression and the subjects' emotional investment in social media were also measured.

Dr Woods said: "Adolescence can be a period of increased vulnerability for the onset of depression and anxiety, and poor sleep quality may contribute to this.

"It is important that we understand how social media use relates to these. Evidence is increasingly supporting a link between social-media use and wellbeing, particularly during adolescence, but the causes of this are unclear."

Nowadays, social media is everywhere, but whilst you check the latest Facebook posts, health is not a consideration.

I think it is important to make teens more aware of the consequences of staying up on social media.

It is so easy to become distracted, and without realising it time has gone by, and nothing has been succeeded by staring at your phone screen.