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64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is Social Media to Blame for Depression?

The percentage of individuals from 18 to 23 who reported experience in a major depressive episode in the past year increased by 83% so almost doubled between 2018 and 2019. The time you spend on Facebook means you're not spending time studying, but it also creates mental health problems that make it harder to perform academically as well as you were prior to the introduction. And actually, students reported that their accounting performance worsened as a result of their mental health issues.

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