Here’s An Explanation For The Connection Between Facebook And Unhappiness

By Jesse Singal Follow @jessesingal There’s an understandable fascination with the question of what effects Facebook has on its 1.3 billion users, and the answer has turned out to be a bit complicated, with findings pointing in both negative (Facebook makes people less happy) and positive (Facebook makes people more trusting and socially connected) directions. Maria Konnikova pointed out in

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Making Friends Online Could Help You Lose Weight

In the age of the social network, there’s certainly such a thing as sharing too much. But when it comes to losing weight, sharing could be key. A new Northwestern University study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface found that those who actively engage in such online communities lost a higher percentage of their body weight compared

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Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Therapist

Who knows you better than anyone? Facebook, of course. In a recent study of more than 17,000 Facebook users, researchers compared the results of a personality survey completed by study participants’ family and friends to a computer analysis of the participants’ Facebook likes. The computer blew family and friends out of the water. After 10 likes, the computer could better

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Researchers Use Twitter To Track Heart Disease

By Tom Jacobs Why does one community have higher levels of heart disease than another? Some of the reasons are obvious, such as income and education levels or local eating and exercise norms. But as epidemiologists have long argued, other likely factors are more ephemeral. Among them: how angry or content the residents tend to feel, and whether the environment

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5 Signs You Should Take A Break From Social Media

By Samantha Gregor In a tech-obsessed society where 500 million tweets are sent per day and 1.28 billion people use Facebook on a regular basis, how can you tell when your own love of “checking in” has gone too far? Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Ph.D., technology expert and author of The Distraction Addiction, shares some of the most common signs that

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