Although four in 10 Facebook users say they have taken long breaks from it, the digital platform keeps growing. The study was posted recently on the Social Science Research Network, an open access site. “For me, Facebook is one of those compulsive things,” said Aaron Kelly, 23, a college student in Madison, Wisconsin. A cadre of psychologists has argued for years that the use of Facebook and other social media is linked to mental distress, especially in adolescents. Others have likened habitual Facebook use to a mental disorder, comparing it to drug addiction and even publishing magnetic-resonance images of what Facebook addiction “looks like in the brain.”When Facebook has published its own analyses to test such claims, the company has been roundly criticised.

Source: bd News24 January 31, 2019 07:30 UTC