Text-messaged people five times per day for two-weeks to examine how Facebook use influences the two

components of subjective well-being: how people feel moment-to-moment and how satisfied they are with their lives. Our results indicate that Facebook use predicts negative shifts on both of these variables over time. The more people used Facebook at one time point, the worse they felt the next time we text-messaged them; the more they used Facebook over two-weeks, the more their life satisfaction levels declined over time.

For example, instead of learning how to handle the give and take of conversation one of our most basic human attributes and a connection we all craveteens instead are crafting and often constantly editing witty text responses, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology social psychologist Sherry Turkle, PhD. For example, a 2010 study with 99 undergraduates led by Holly Schiffrin, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Mary Washington, found that those who spent more time on the Internet reported decreased wellbeing. Most of the students also reported that the Internet was less useful than face-to-face communication for building relationships and increasing emotional closeness with others ( Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2010). The Internetand particularly online social networking websites may also exacerbate the problems identified in a 2011 study inPersonality and Psychology Bulletin. It found that people think their peers are happier than they really are, and this distortion of reality makes people lonely and dissatisfied with life. In the study, Dartmouth College business professor Alexander Jordan, PhD (a student in Stanford's graduate psychology department at the time) asked 80 college freshmen about how often they thought other students had negative experiences, such as getting dumped, receiving a bad grade or feeling overloaded with work. Students were also asked to estimate how often their peers had positive experiences, such as going out with friends or acing tests. Overall, the researchers found that students underestimated their peers' negative feelings (by 17 percent) and overestimated their positive emotions (by 6 percent). "Online social networks are a great example of the type of public venue where people play up the positive and hide the negative, which can lead to the sense that one is alone in one's own struggles," Jordan says. These findings also suggest that even though we all know we hide our own sad or lonely feelings from others, we don't realize how often others are doing the same. "This anxiety around always performing' for others via social networking sites may lead to teenagers whose identities are shaped not by self-exploration and time alone to process their thoughts, but by how they are perceived by the online collective," Turkle says.

The study conducted by psychologist Dr. Mark Becker, of Michigan State University, found a 70 per cent increase in self-reported depressive symptoms between the group with lowest level of media multi-tasking and the group with highest level. When it came to social anxiety, there was a 42% increase between the groups. - See more at: http://www.depressionanxietydiet.com/how-social-media-causes-depressionanxiety/#sthash.qjC7OdH3.dpuf How social media causes depression anxiety, occurs in two ways, and comes down to one word STRESS! Chronic stress causes depression anxiety. Being constantly on alert for new social media messages, to your primitive instinctive fight or flight limbic system, is the same as being on constant alert for predators, which causes a constant release of the stress hormone cortisol. Learn More: How Stress Causes Depression Anxiety

Constant release of the stress hormone cortisol, from multiple social media usage, over time causes damage to your gastrointestinal tract (gut), which opens the door to an immuno-inflammatory response in the body and brain, leading to depression anxiety. Learn More: Gut Brain Connection and Depression Anxiety The other way how social media causes depression anxiety, is from the stress produced from constantly trying to project an unrealistic, and unachievable perception of perfection within your social network. The constant stress from constantly trying to project an image of perfection, a perfect career, perfect marriage, perfect everything, leads to the constant release of the stress hormone, and just like mult-tasking social media usage, leads to depression anxiety. - See more at: http://www.depressionanxietydiet.com/how-social-media-causesdepression-anxiety/#sthash.qjC7OdH3.dpuf