Use of social media can increase depression and loneliness,findings of an experiment conducted by psychology experts have shown.
Social media and increased risk for depression and loneliness have long been linked but no causal organization has been proven until now.
In a fresh study, however, and psychologist Melissa Hunt,from the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues finally connect the use of Facebook, and Instagram,and Snapchat to decreased well-being.
Hunt and colleagues involved 143 participants to buy portion in an experiment designed to test the psychological effects of allowing people to use social media as they usually did compared to limiting their use of these sites to a maximum of ten minutes per platform per day.
The researchers randomly assigned the participants into one of two groups who either used social media as normal or had their social media usage limited.
The sites involved in the study were Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, and the three most popular social media sites among college students.
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Source: inquisitr.com