Does Facebook depress you? Cut back friendships

A couple of years ago Facebook was still fun, there’s a reason it has more than 500 million users. But if with each passing day you discover that the news you see in your account makes you more depressed, you are not alone. In a study by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, researchers found that a group of users between the ages of 18 and 65 rated their lives as less satisfying than those of their friends. Based on the messages that others wrote about themselves on the social network. Interestingly, the study found that the limit of friends to avoid feeling less self-esteem is 354. After that number, the scale tips to reveal less happy users. The reason according to Dilney Goncalves, a doctor and marketing professor in Madrid, is “that Facebook only gives a limited vision of people’s lives, which tends to be unreal and fantasy.” Goncalves recommends getting rid of the most conceited friends, and adjusting your preferences so that the messages you see are more optimistic. Another option is to reduce the number of friends and only stay with the people who interest you and who contribute to your well-being. That means your dentist and your roommate can easily leave your list.