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Take back control, urges public health body, as it encourages people to abstain or cut down.

By Denis Campbell, Health Policy Editor

We’ve got Dry January for anyone tempted to try alcohol abstinence and Stoptober for smokers who want to quit. Now, Scroll Free September will target the use of social media.

The Royal Society for Public Health, which is behind the campaign, is urging everyone to stop using – or reduce use of – Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and other social media platforms for the month.

 

The campaign is being billed as an ‘opportunity to take back control of our relationship with social media’ for the millions of Britons for whom social media plays a large, possibly unhealthily large, role in their lives.

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