Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?

#DeleteFacebook is now a movement. Mark Zuckerberg's social media company is under attack because of the Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, but Lou’s more concerned about its impact on his mental health and how Facebook affects his brain.

Sources & Further Reading:

More on Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: https://www.theguardian.com/news/seri...

Smartphones, social media, and teens: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...

Teen pregnancy: https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/abo...

Teen suicide: http://time.com/4887282/teen-suicide-...

Dr. Shakya’s study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Facebook blog post: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz book: https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies...

Facebook wall & self-esteem boost: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/...

Study on stalking exes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

Effect of social pain on brain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Professor Williams study: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/resear...

Facebook & flow state: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Weinschenk on Facebook: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl...


CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: m.cho
Researcher: Dushyant Naresh


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