STUDY: Students With Largest Friend Lists Feel Stress

Research suggests people with the biggest lists of contacts on Facebook are likeliest to feel stressed out by the website.

Research suggests people with the biggest lists of contacts on Facebook are likeliest to feel stressed out by the website.

This comes from an Edinburgh Napier University study of roughly 200 students, using focus groups, online surveys and one-on-one interviews. Oh, if only the research included more people and a broader array of demographic groups! Also, it would have been helpful to learn the average number of friends per person surveyed, and how big the largest ones were.

About one in ten of the students said that Facebook made them feel anxious.

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