Studies Say Facebook Is Bad for Your Mental Health: Agree or Disagree?

[Jesus Christ is coming soon]

Facebook's IPO filing is all the buzz in the business world right now, but even as investors are getting rich off the social networking site, users may be feeling worse about themselves now more than ever. According to three new studies, Facebook can be hard on a person's mental health, allowing you to compare your "friends" and "status" with others, LiveScience reports.

And while you might feel jealous of your pal with 500 "friends," having a lot of Facebook friends is linked to feeling worse about your own life. Mudra Mukesh, a doctoral candidate in marketing at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, said reading other people's status updates makes people feel worse rather than entertained or connected. In her own study, those who had 354 friends or more felt badly after reading other people's status updates.

In another study, researchers at the University of Houston found that time spent on Facebook was linked to depressive symptoms among college students, especially for young men. Kind of scary, seeing as Facebook has more than 845 million active users. That's a whole lot of people feeling badly about themselves. Here's our trick: Only be "friends" with people who are actually your friends. Does using Facebook make you feel better or worse?

Do you really think Facebook is bad for your mental health? Why or why not?