Another day, another "Facebook makes you miserable" headline. For the last few years, the social network, which now claims nearly 700 million daily users worldwide, has been the subject of an endless stream of stories in the media and sociology journals claiming that it’s "making people depressed." Facebook usually keeps mum when each fresh wave of negative press hits, each URL another arrow flung toward its iron-clad gates. To a casual observer, it would appear that Facebook has a really big problem on its hands.
Dozens of articles by reputable publications like NPR and The Economist piled on to the latest piece of evidence: a study by the University of Michigan which measured the moods of just 82 people, all of whom were college-age...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/22/4647916/facebook-isnt-making-you-depressed-the-internet-is
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