Put the phone down and nobody feels bad
We already knew this, but a study has finally confirmed that depression and loneliness are linked to social media — and the fix is simple.
‘Alone in a crowded room’ is a familiar, perhaps overused phrase, that’s been around a while.
Maybe it’s time it was update it to ‘alone looking at your crowded phone.’
A study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania has finally proven what has been suspected ever since we started peering into the lives of others through our phones: social media is making us lonely.
Published in the December issue of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, researchers spent three weeks observing 143 students in an experimental study. Some students were asked to either use their social media (Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook) as they norm
