Facebook Depression

The adolescence is clearly the hardest stage of a person's life, other's opinion is fundamental and teenagers are very susceptible to what surrounds them, so it easy for them to be diagnosed with depression, but what happens if this one is triggered by using too much facebook? That is what researchers found out during an investigation about how the social networks changes our perception of the lives of friends and family members.

The study was conducted by two sociologist at Utah Valley University, this one consisted in asking to 425 students how identified they felt about the statements "life is fair" and "many of friend have better life than me", additionally, researchers collected information about how much time they spent on facebook, their number of friends of facebook, clarifying how many of these they met personally and how many they met just by the network.

The results showed that teenagers who spend more time on facebook, specially the ones that have more friends that they don't know in their real life, think that others were happier, so they agreed less that life is fair and more that others have a better life, so researchers came to the conclusion that there is a "facebook depression" which is caused by comparing your life with the other's.
It is easy to feel this way if you only see status telling you about how a good time your friends are having, but teenagers must be conscious that what is shown on facebook is not the complete picture of their friends' life, particularly with people of their same age because they try to project their best image possible.
Do you think that social networks can make you feel sad?
What would you do as a parent if you see that your child is suffering this condition?

Here is a video where you can see the main signs to identify this depression in teenagers and some advices for parents who are dealing with it.