People checking their Facebook wall often tend to be sad and unhealthy claims study

People who check their Facebook profile all the time are likely to be more sad and unhealthy than those who use it sporadically, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Yale University and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), studied the pattern of Facebook use and mental health of 5,208 volunteers between 2013 and 2015 for the study.

The findings showed that increased use of Facebook was closely linked to “compromised social, physical and psychological health”, Metro.co.uk reported on Sunday. It also revealed that if users were updating their profiles or liking posts more than average, they were more likely to have mental health issues. The report appeared in the American Journal of Epidemiology and was led by UCSD’s Assistant Professor of Public Health Holly Shakya and Yale’s Nicholas Christakis, who is Director of the University’s Human Nature Lab.

This comes after a newly leaked set of documents revealed Facebook’s guidelines for its content moderators. The data comes from The Guardian in the form of 100 internal training manuals, spreadsheets, flowcharts and more, giving some an insight into how the company deals with reported posts and what outcome users can expect when they flag and report on to the moderation team.

With inputs from IANS