How To Help Depressed Friends On Facebook

Facebook can help you detect friends who may be suffering from depression, and reaching out to them can strengthen your ties.

Facebook can help you detect friends who may be suffering from depression.

The popular social media site has often been referred to as a kind of mini support group. It’s a place where folks can spill their feelings readily in an environment, that oftentimes, tends to be nonjudgemental.

Since Facebookers do express their feelings, if sadness, for example, is something that they are experiencing, then it will become evident in their postings.

There are some people who tend to vent their feelings without reservation and according to mental health experts, doing this is not a bad thing.

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