Abstract
Recently, there is an increasing concern of social media use. In particular, social media use may be related to empathy decline and mental health issues, even may be linked to some social problems (Konrath, 2010). The present study aims to investigate whether and how social media use would be associated with empathy. We collected totally 150 participants (6 – 78 years) through online survey. The results showed that time spending on social media has no significant relationship with empathy. However, preference for social media interaction was found to be positively related to online cognitive empathy. In addition, age has significant negative relationship with both online and offline empathy.