The authors of the study also note a variety of limitations of the study and the conclusions that can be drawn from it.
It is widely accepted that social media and the Internet more broadly have changed how humans socialize, organize, and seek leisure, but it is not obvious or necessary that their wide adoption has influenced psychological well-being. In this descriptive study we used the broadest data available to describe how two measures of Facebook adoption relate to three well-being outcomes across 72 countries over a 12-year period. We found generally positive associations between country-level Facebook adoption and well-being which were partially qualified by demographics and not uniform across countries. We did not find evidence that increased social media adoption is consistently negatively associated with well-being.
The authors of the study also note a variety of limitations of the study and the conclusions that can be drawn from it.
The authors of the study also note a variety of limitations of the study and the conclusions that can be drawn from it.