Depression is no laughing matter. It is a serious, life-threatening condition that proves fatal to over 25,000 Americans per year when figuring that between 50% and 75% of all suicides are due to depression. So anything we can do to reduce depression is worth doing.
Engadget reports on a study from the University of Pennsylvania that shows “social media limits made people feel less lonely.”
“The team enlisted the help of 143 undergraduate students who completed a survey regarding their mental well-being and who had to submit screenshots of their iPhones’ batteries for three weeks. They were separated into two groups: a control group that maintained their current social media behavior and an experimental group that limited their time on the three social media networks to 10 minutes per platform per day. The researchers found that those who spent less time on the three platforms showed “significant reductions in loneliness.”
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