Showing posts with label teenage Facebook depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teenage Facebook depression. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Facebook--Entertaining or Ensnaring?

Yesterday I saw a news report that many teenagers are becoming depressed from viewing the happy photos and reading the positive posts on their friends’ Facebook pages. Called “Facebook envy,” jealousy is emerging in both adults and children who imagine that their friends have amazing lives and perfect relationships. Although such perceptions are always more fantasy than fact, such thoughts profoundly affect many who negatively compare their own disappointing circumstances.

Facebook can reveal what’s in our hearts. It’s so easy to be ensnared by attitudes such as these: