A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

A new study, which is being hailed as the most trustworthy scientific assessment of social media’s effects, suggests that quitting Facebook is unequivocally positive for one’s mental health. Researchers at Stanford University and New York University who led the study — which was posted on an open access site called the Social Science Research Network — recruited 2,844 Facebook users via Facebook ads. This is not the first time researchers have looked at the effect of Facebook and other social media platforms on human health.

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