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Now you can measure your FB addiction on the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale
Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers from Norway have developed a new tool to measure this phenomenon — the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS). In January...
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Facebook isn’t depressing!
The link between Facebook and depression have been found to be invalid. New evidence thrown up by researchers debunks the finding that spending time on Facebook and other social sites causes...
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Addicted to Facebook?
From your teenage sister to your dad, your uncle in Bhatinda to your grandpa in Bengaluru, everyone’s addicted to Facebook. 99% of you reading this article have a Facebook account; 50% of you have your...
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Facebook can make you psychotic and delusional!
A new study has found that social networking sites including Facebook can affect your mental health and lead to psychotic episodes and delusions! With the Internet becoming ubiquitous, there’s a...
View ArticleFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister tells kids to log out!
Karl Marx had once opined that ‘religion was the opium of the masses’. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Facebook and the internet in general can lay claim to that same epithet. Life is not without a...
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Emotions shared on Facebook contagious
Can you ‘catch a mood’ from spending time on social media? Researchers from the University of California, San Diego believe so. Their study, published in PLOS ONE, analyzed over a billion anonymized...
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Beware — too much Facebook will leave you depressed!
Do you often feel you have wasted time on Facebook or termed it as a meaningless activity but still cannot let your eyes move away from the screen? You are at the risk of developing depression....
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