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In the age of digital technology, there is a widespread use of mobile phones and other gadgets especially by adolescents. They are spending an average of 3-4 hours a day on messaging, chatting, gaming, watching videos etc. Due to the excessive use, adolescents are facing mental health issues. Though, the modern digital world brings a new height by making the communication smarter, quicker and full of knowledge among the adolescents, but at the same time it paves the ways towards its misuse and abuse. Thus, the digital world has both positive and negative effects on the young minds and their mental health. The present investigation focuses mainly on the analysis of findings of different studies conducted by the researchers. However, findings of literature reviews suggest a negative effects on the mental health of adolescents', but it differ basing on the type of use; procrastination and passive use are related to more negative effects, whereas, societal and active use are related to more positive effects. The use of digital technology has stronger effects on short-term markers of hedonic well-being (e.g. negative affect) than long-term measures of eudaimonic well-being (e.g. life satisfaction). The negative effect of it predisposes socio-emotional and psychological vulnerabilities, such as mental health disorders. Further, behavioural and emotional dysregulation and adverse experiences such as cyber bullying are also marked among them. Although adolescents are more vulnerable, effects are comparable for both adolescents and adults. It appears that both low and excessive use are related to decreased well-being, whereas moderate use is related to increased well-being. The current investigation still has many limitations: high-quality studies with large-scale samples, objective measures of digital technology use, and experience sampling of well-being are at the fore front for future research.