The study found that people with higher BMI may use Facebook more but not that Facebook leads to higher BMI. Photo: BloombergLos Angeles: Hitting ‘likes’ on Facebook posts and updating your status on the social networking site more often may be harmful to your mental and physical health, a new study has warned. In addition to finding that people who gave out more “likes” had worse health, the researchers found that those who updated their Facebook status more often reported having worse mental health, on average, than those who updated their status less often, Live Science reported. These links were shown to grow over time, suggesting both that people whose health is worse may turn to Facebook and that using Facebook may make things worse, researchers said. They also found that people with higher BMI may use Facebook more but not that Facebook leads to higher BMI.

Source: Mint February 05, 2017 12:43 UTC