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For years, many lawmakers and experts have claimed that using Facebook can lead to psychological harm. And while some evidence indicates this could be true for young users, a recent study claims that the platform may not be bad for people’s mental health overall.

The study, conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute, looked at the overall impact of Facebook use and psychological trends at a national level.

“We examined the best available data carefully — and found they did not support the idea that Facebook membership is related to harm, quite the opposite,” researcher and professor Andrew Przybylski said. “In fact, our analysis indicates Facebook is possibly related to positive well-being.”

However, he issued some caution on the study’s findings, noting that it would not reveal the impact of Facebook on individual groups of users. He also said that researchers need more access to better data to make more definitive conclusions.

“You know, we have a situation where a handful of people are crying wolf, about social media. But we don’t actually have the data, we don’t have the materials we need to build a wolf detector,” Przybylski continued.

The findings of this research will be surprising to many of Facebook’s critics. However, as the study’s own authors point out, we are still far from certain how Facebook truly impacts the people using it.

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