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Facebook can make you psychotic and delusional!

May 6, 2013
A new study has found that social networking sites including Facebook can affect your mental health and lead to psychotic episodes and delusions! With the Internet becoming ubiquitous, there’s a staggering increase in the …

Addicted to Facebook?

January 11, 2013
From your teenage sister to your dad, your uncle in Bhatinda to your grandpa in Bengaluru, everyone’s addicted to Facebook. 99% of you reading this article have a Facebook account; 50% of you have your Facebook page open in …

Facebook isn’t depressing!

July 10, 2012
The link between Facebook and depression have been found to be invalid. New evidence thrown up by researchers debunks the finding that spending time on Facebook and other social sites causes depression. The University of …

Now you can measure your FB addiction on the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale

May 9, 2012
Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers from Norway have developed a new tool to measure this phenomenon -- the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS). In January 2011, 227 women and 196 men …