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Does Facebook (and other social networking) lead to increased depression?

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[ Short link to this article if you need it - http://goo.gl/ykgDqG or retweet me ] This is an article that's been in draft form well over a year now (it was written as the final entry following my previous two articles about Facebook - one on the frequent appearance of unsourced "scandal" posts and social engineering and another on technical issues with the site  - and I initially intended to post it shortly after the others near the end of 2012!) It wook a while because it's a tricky one to balance the article correctly and frankly, it was hard at the time to come by non-anecdotal statistics to back it up effectively. But I now need to get it out of the way so I can post some more blogs :-) Unfortunately I may have missed the boat slightly by delaying it since there are a few similar articles that were posted during 2013 by others! I have a concern that social media potentially triggers more cases of depression than is necessarily appreciated. This is, of cour