Besides social networking and getting you in touch with old friends, facebook now has an additional advantage. According to experts, Facebook could be used to treat depression as 90 per cent of users log on to the social networking site to remember happier times.
According to scientists facebook helps in self-soothing especially if you are feeling low. This research shows we are more likely to log on to facebook to connect with our past selves. In fact bigger study is planned to confirm these findings.
The study has been published in the journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction.
