Study: Facebook Can Get Kind of Depressing

Here’s an alternately insightful and discouraging report on how social media has changed the way we relate to each other. Seems like the small thrills of interacting with people and brands on Facebook just can’t measure up to the experience of seeing them in real life.

By requiring participants to answer questions about their mindsets via text message throughout the day, researchers got a better impression of how social activity affected their moods—and it wasn’t all pretty.