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The Facebook Effect: Good or Bad for Your Health?

• Health Benefits of Facebook
  • • 1. Fuel self-esteem.：The very act of posting something about yourself — regardless of what you write — can boost your self-confidence because you control the image you present to your network of friends, according to researchers.
    • 2.Strengthen friendship bonds：
      • a. students with low self-esteem and happiness levels who used Facebook more frequently felt more connected to friends and campus life than those who logged on less often.
      • b. the site helped cement positive interactions among friends. Both private messages and wall posts allowed Facebook users to confide in their friends, surf down memory lane, and laugh out loud, promoting happy feelings.
    • 3. Stamp out shyness and loneliness.：communicating online helped improve communication skills for lonely adolescents, giving them an outlet to talk more comfortably about personal topics.
• Health Risks of Facebook
  • 1. Cause depression.：the depressionFacebook link only held true among people with “low-quality” friendships; people with good pals did not experience depression with increasing Facebook use.
  • 2. Trigger eating disorders:
    • social networking sites necessarily cause eating disorders; as with Facebook depression, it may be that people prone to eating disorders spend more time online.
    • What’s more, the researchers found that parents can help protect their daughters from harmful effects of media: The children of parents who were aware of what their daughters were viewing online — and talked to them about what they saw and how much time they spent — were less prone to develop eating disorders, according to study authors.
  • 3. Split up marriages：Many relationships have been destroyed by "Facebook bombs" -- people reconnecting with high school sweetheages or otherpeople from the past, which can lead to emotional, if not actual, cheating.Couples are advised not to hide who they talk to on Facebook.While it's easy to reconnect with an old flame or flirt behind your computer facade, the potential damage it can do depends on the stability of your relationship in the first place."It all depends on how much you trust your spouse," Kerner said."Have a conversation and set some rules.The key is transparency.