13-11-2018 12:00 via theverge.com

There’s more evidence Facebook can make you feel lonely

Eleven months ago, Facebook published what I then called the most extraordinary blog post in its history: an acknowledgement that, in some cases, using social media can make you feel worse about yourself. The post was based on a survey of recent academic research on the platform, which found that certain forms of mindless thumb-scrolling could be alienating.
Facebook’s proposed solution was not to use social media less, necessarily, but rather to use it differently. What followed over the
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