People who overuse Facebook are forced to regularly respond to updates from their social contacts in order to elicit acceptance from others. By doing this, they either reinforce their dependency (i.e., hypersensitivity to rejection) or their self-criticism (i.e., tendency to magnify their own inadequacies). These processes undermine their self-worth and escalate into depression.

— Read on www.psypost.org/2022/12/facebook-addiction-increases-depression-severity-among-people-who-are-already-depressed-64586

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