{"id":93781,"date":"2016-06-06T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93781"},"modified":"2016-06-06T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:59:17","slug":"proof-that-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-making-you-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/93781-proof-that-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-making-you-depressed","title":{"rendered":"Proof that Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are making you depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26783723\" target=\"_blank\">study <\/a><\/strong>conducted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has found a link between the amount of time people spend on social media and the prevalence\u00a0of depression.<\/p>\n<p>The study found a direct correlation between the amount of time people spent\u00a0on social media and the likelihood that they would be depressed.<\/p>\n<p>The average survey participant spent 61 minutes using social media every day. Over 25% of these participants were classified as\u00a0having \u201chigh\u201d indicators of depression.<\/p>\n<p>There <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/amitchowdhry\/2016\/04\/30\/study-links-heavy-facebook-and-social-media-usage-to-depression\/#73cac2cd7e4b\" target=\"_blank\">were <\/a><\/strong>significant and linear associations between social media usage and depression, whether social media was measured based on total time spent or frequency of visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause social media has become such an integrated component of human interaction, it is important for clinicians interacting with young adults to recognize the balance to be struck in encouraging potential positive use, while redirecting from problematic use,\u201d said Brian A. Primack, M.D., Ph.D., a senior author of\u00a0the research project, in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upmc.com\/media\/NewsReleases\/2016\/Pages\/lin-primack-sm-depression.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a><\/strong> on the University&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and tech deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93623-awesome-gaming-and-tech-deals.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and tech deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia plan to use GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 desktop cards in gaming laptops\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93699-nvidia-plan-to-use-geforce-gtx-1080-and-gtx-1070-desktop-cards-in-gaming-laptops.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia plan to use GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 desktop cards in gaming laptops<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Meet one of South Africa\u2019s premier Hearthstone players \u2013 Francois \u201cFafa\u201d Mouton\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90365-meet-one-of-south-africas-premier-hearthstone-players-francois-fafa-mouton.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Meet one of South Africa\u2019s premier Hearthstone players \u2013 Francois \u201cFafa\u201d Mouton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has found a link between the amount of time people spend on social media and the onset of depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":93783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[31,1887,199,19107,177],"class_list":["post-93781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-features","tag-active","tag-depression","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93881,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93781\/revisions\/93881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}