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Facebook Friends = Poor Social Adjustment

Posted on October 08, 2008

In a recent study of 70 undergraduate students at Assumption College in Massachusetts, researcher Maria Kalpidou found that the number of Facebook friends you have can predict social adjustment to college. Freshmen with 200 or more friends scored with lower levels of self-esteem and personal and academic adjustment than freshmen with less than 200 friends. That s right the more friends you have on Facebook, the less likely you are to have, well, actual friends. These effects wore off over time, however, as upper-class students surveyed with 200 or more friends showed higher levels ...

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