How to tell if Facebook is making you depressed

I stumbled on these facts few days ago and I was disturbed to share it among my dear readers. There are many, I mean millions out there facing these difficulties pretend to be happy. It has even lead some individual hating themselves, get frustrated, depressed, thinking of suicide been the next option and went ahead to attack their friends simply because of the beautiful photos they saw on their friend facebook wall .you conclude having the feeling that your friend is doing better than you in careers, education, marital status to mention but a few. My dear friend, life is not a competition. Stop thinking like a child and grow up, celebrate people and somebody will definitely celebrate you when your time comes.How to tell if facebooking is makes you depressed.
As new research suggests Facebook can trigger symptoms of depression among users, here are six signs you might want to take a break from the site.

 It has been blamed for everything from memory problems and distrustfulness to psychotic episodes and delusions. And now Facebook is said to lead some users to depression.

The problem, it seems, is the feelings of envy triggered when you realise how much more fabulous than yours are the lives of your friends (or more often, people you haven’t seen since your schooldays).

Trawling through posts about other people’s generous husbands, beautiful babies, glamorous weddings and incredible jobs can make you feel, well, just a tad rubbish about yourself by comparison. Which in turn can lead to symptoms of depression.

At least, such were the findings of experts at the University of Missouri, published this week.

So how can you tell if Facebook is making you depressed? Here are some key warning signs that you should probably log off:

1. Your best friend has been on holiday to Ibiza with some other friends you don’t know. She has posted 200 pictures of the holiday on Facebook. It is midnight and you have to be at work early the next day but you nevertheless find yourself clicking through every single picture, growing increasingly bitter. You go to bed feeling rejected by your friend and worrying that she doesn’t find you fun any more.

2. Your ex-girlfriend has a new boyfriend who is taller, sportier and with better facial hair than you. You hate him. You spend all evening sifting through his profile to find some fatal flaw in his character that will ultimately cause your ex to dump him and return to you. You fantasise about violent revenge on the boyfriend.

3. Your friends have all had babies and are constantly posting pictures of them on Facebook. You refuse to look at any of the pictures because you are still single and your biological clock is ticking so loudly you can hardly hear anything else. You tell yourself you hate children anyway.

 4. You find yourself posting elliptical status updates like, “God, what a day,” or “I officially hate work,” in the hope that someone - anyone - will respond and ask you for more details.

5. It is Saturday night. You are at home on Facebook, reading posts about other people’s nights out.

6. You realise you have spent the best part of an evening stalking a complete stranger on Facebook. A friend of a friend of a friend, perhaps - you can't even remember how you came to be looking at this person's profile. Whoever they are, their life looks amazing and you wish it was yours.


Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/11393766/How-to-tell-if-Facebook-is-making-you-depressed.html