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This article written by Brianna Gays deals with Facebook causing their users to experience sadness. Gays writes about how when Facebook users check their friends profiles they focus on that friends positive experiences. Apparently, speaking for other users of Facebook, we focus only on the positive things that are going on in our friend's lives, and underestimate the bad experiences they go through. This causes us to think more negativily about our own lives, which forces us to experience sadness. We look at what our friends are doing and basically ask ourselves why they are happy, and why we are not as happy as them. We do this, when in reality we are just as happy. This theory was proven by a study conducted at Stanford University.
That's interesting. Which side do you agree with?
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