Does Facebook make you lonely?: A meta analysis

By Hayeon Song, Anne Zmyslinski-Seelig, Jinyoung Kim, Adam Drent, Angela Victor, Kikuko Omori, Mike Allen. Computers in Human Behavior, 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Self-presentation styles, privacy, and loneliness as predictors of Facebook use in young people (2016, background): “The meta-analysis done by Song et al. (2014) showed that the effect that occurred was lonely people using Facebook rather than Facebook making people lonely.”
Experimentally manipulating social media abstinence: results of a four-week diary study (2019, background): “Song et al. (2014) and Heffer et al. (2019) suggests that the causal direction of social media use is far from a resolved issue.”
Facebook Addiction and Subjective Well-Being: a Study of the Mediating Role of Shyness and Loneliness (2019, background): “^ (p.446)showedthatapathfromelementsofFacebookuse to loneliness is more appropriate to explain the data (Song et al. 2014).”
Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence (2019, background): “Note that one additional meta-analysis on loneliness was not included in this review because the validity of this meta-analysis is questionable (Song et al., 2014).4 Main findings are summarized in Figure 2 and Table S1 in the Online Supplement.”
Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis (2017, neutral): “Song et al. 22 examined the relationship of Facebook use (compulsive use of SNS, time spent on SNS, and visiting frequency) with anxiety, shyness, loneliness, and extraversion.”
Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (2017, background): “Facebook use is typically assessed with measures such as self-estimates of time users spend on the site, frequency of log-ins, or the Facebook intensity scale (for examples see: Burke & Kraut, 2011; Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Song et al., 2014).”
Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time (2018, background): “Some research suggests that electronic communication, particularly social media, may even increase feelings of loneliness (Song et al., 2014), and time spent on electronic communication has increased considerably since the smartphone (a mobile phone with Internet access) was introduced in 2007 and g”
No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (2018, background): “Higher usage of Facebook has been found to be associated with lower self-esteem cross-sectionally (Kalpidou, Costin & Morris, 2011) as well as greater loneliness (Song et al., 2014).”