We speculate that the addictive nature of video gaming might make adolescents( keep) playing even though they might be sleepy and in need of sleep. Bei Bei More Quotes by Bei Bei More Quotes From Bei Bei During vacation, none of the technology was associated with shorter sleep time, because adolescents were able to sleep in later, however, we found that social media was associated with somewhat longer time to fall asleep, and this might be due to social media being mentally alerting and emotionally engaging, so it's harder for adolescents to wind down quickly afterwards. Bei Bei health-news The key to help adolescents get better sleep is to help them get sufficient sleep during school days, so with the constraint of early school start time, what adolescents could do is set reasonably early bedtime, and avoid staying up late. Bei Bei health-news This highlights that biological factors such as natural delay in body clock, and having to get up early for school, have much stronger effects on adolescents' sleep than technology itself. Bei Bei health-news