How Facebook is changing the way we think and feel

In 1996, a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University began a study of the effects Internet usage on psychological well-being and social involvement. Home Internet use was just becoming prevalent enough to warrant such a study, and multiuser dungeons (MUDs) were still a common enough place for online socializing to be listed in the opening paragraphs of the published results.
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