Are your Facebook friends really having more fun than you?

A Stanford University concludes that the social-networking site aggravates our tendency to think everyone else is having more fun, making us more gloomy than ever

Don't worry, your Facebook friends are having just as many low points as you, they're just not posting it on their news feed.
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While Facebook and other social media aim to make users feel more connected with one another, they can often have the opposite effect, leading us to feel alone and unfulfilled as we scroll through the exuberant status updates and playful photos of our friends. At least that's the conclusion from a new series of studies by Stanford University's psychology department. Here, a brief guide:

How does touching base with friends make us feel bad?

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