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In the last 15 years, social media has become such a pervasive part of our lives that we don't even notice how much time we're spending on it. Statista reports that the average person spends 135 minutes on social media each day, following an upward trend of increasing time spent on social media each year. This raises the question: What are the effects of social media on the brain?
A University of Pennsylvania study examined how social media use causes fear of missing out ("FOMO"). In the study, one group of participants limited their time on social media to 30 minutes a day, while a control group continued to use Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram as usual. The researchers tracked the participants' social media time automatically via iPhone battery usage, screen shots, and participants completed surveys about their mood and well-being. After three weeks, the participants who limited social media said that they felt less depressed and lonely than people who had no social media limits.
Psychologist Melissa Hunt led the study. She explained, "Using less social media than you normally would leads to significant decreases in both depression and loneliness. These effects are particularly pronounced for folks who were more depressed when they came into the study."
Hunt suggests that the reason for feeling depressed after spending too much time on social networks boils down to comparison. When viewing someone else's curated life online, it's easy to see their perfect pictures and think their lives are better than yours.
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