Seeing Other People’s Happy Lives On Facebook Makes Us Depressed
Jacob Sloan
January 2011
This news article believes that Facebook can cause us to feel down and depressed about our lives when others look so good and happy. Many of us try to portray we have such amazing and fun filled lives even if we do not yet still when we see others supposedly having the 'time of their lives' by the look of their profile we automatically become dissatisfied with our own lives.
There is even a group on Facebook that people can 'Like' to show agreement on this matter. This group is named 'Watching peoples lives fall apart via status updates and news feeds'. In the section that displays what the group is about it states "For those of us who laugh in the face of other people's online misery"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Watching-peoples-lives-fall-apart-via-status-updates-and-news-feeds/202063340259
There is even a group on Facebook that people can 'Like' to show agreement on this matter. This group is named 'Watching peoples lives fall apart via status updates and news feeds'. In the section that displays what the group is about it states "For those of us who laugh in the face of other people's online misery"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Watching-peoples-lives-fall-apart-via-status-updates-and-news-feeds/202063340259
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