In this article I found on Yahoo, it discusses how Facebook may be used to discover mental illnesses. How? A student from the University of Missouri asked about 200 college students to take a survey and regarding their personalities and social interactions, then hand in a copy of their Facebook profile with the freedom to block out any information they do not want seen. The results exposed information about participant's psychological state. For instance, the results showed that people with more information blacked out had higher levels of paranoia than people who showed more info.
This article talks about an experiment where social media was used to find mental illnesses in college students. Now with the help of social media sites, we are able to use them to find out more about people's state of minds. In the past, people would have to fill out questionnaires to figure out a diagnosis, but now people's activity behavior on the websites can help determine it.The patterns on the social media sites are far more accurate than the questionnaires. Social media sites are adapting and are becoming useful tools in the psychological field.

Hi everyone! My name is Julia and I am blogging about social media and how it relates to and affects society. I'm going to be posting articles, videos, etc. on interesting topics regarding social media such as Twitter and Facebook.