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Facebook leaves users 'anxious and stressed'

Updated on: 18 February,2011 12:17 PM IST  | 
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The more 'friends' you have on Facebook, the more likely you are to feel stressed, says a new study.

Facebook leaves users 'anxious and stressed'

Others could not handle the pressure to be 'entertaining', while others became 'envious' of users who had more friends or seemed to be having more fun than them. Kathy Charles, of Napier University, who led the study, said: "We found it was actually those with the most contacts, those who had invested the most time in the site, who were the ones most likely to be stressed."


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