{"id":270940,"date":"2010-02-03T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/?p=52997"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:00:16","slug":"we%e2%80%99ve-all-got-the-internet-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270940","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve All Got the Internet Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"So according to a recent study, the Internet is making us depressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the scientists behind the study link depression to the amount of time spent in a virtual world, I have a few of my own theories as to why the Internet is making us all very, very sad.<\/p>\n

1: Checking on the Ex<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you are about to say that you have never fallen prey to Facebooking our ex you\u2019d better grab a fire extinguisher, because your pants are on fire.\u00a0 After a break-up, as detailed by Ted Mosby on \u201cHow I Met Your Mother,\u201d there is a clear winner and a clear loser.\u00a0 And of course, you want your ex to be the loser.\u00a0 So you\u2019ll casually click on his Facebook, just to see how he\u2019s doing (i.e. hopefully read a bunch of depressing status updates regarding his horrible life since you guys broke up, maybe some encouraging wall posts from his friends trying in vain to get him out of his depression of knowing that there was no one else for him than you…) and what do you find? NEW PICTURES OF HIM AND SOME GIRL?!\u00a0 IT\u2019S ONLY BEEN A WEEK!\u00a0 WHO IS THIS \u201cJESSICA\u201d??!\u00a0 You click through the entire album at least twice, only to find that this little witch is now apparently dating your vile ex, and (after a small amount of clicking) she\u2019s just gorgeous and cool and perfect.\u00a0 <Insert depressing Status Update here.><\/p>\n

2: Online Shopping<\/strong>. You avoid the expensive stores in the mall because you know you can’t afford them, but there’s no avoiding that amazing Botkier bag or Louboutin pump that you happen to come across while absentmindedly surfing the web in lecture. And seeing it there, taunting you with its beauty, sends you into a deep fit of depression when you know you can’t afford it.<\/span><\/p>\n

3: Hey, I\u2019m Doing So Much Better Than You!<\/strong> Even though you know that Facebook trawling is just as harmful as it is helpful (if not more so), you still can\u2019t stay away.\u00a0 So you see in your Newsfeed that one of your old classmates is putting up pictures from their trip abroad this summer.\u00a0 Oh it\u2019s no big deal – they just spent a month in Paris in cafes and then trekked down to the coast of the Mediterranean and spent a couple of weeks on the beach.\u00a0 Oh and there another friend spent, like, two months surfing in Australia.\u00a0 And this friend over here just changed their work info; oh they\u2019re just casually working at NYLON now…while you are currently in a snow covered dorm boiling water on the sly for oatmeal.\u00a0 Depression.<\/p>\n

4: WHAT TIME IS IT?! <\/strong>You may think that the internet is just good for killing time between things that you\u2019re doing, but what if those other activities become the things that you\u2019re using to kill time between your Internet time?\u00a0 It starts with Facebook (everything starts with Facebook now); you\u2019re just casually clicking around, \u201ccatching up\u201d with friends and, suddenly, you happen to catch the time. “How is it possible that I’ve been on Facebook for an hour?” But then you feel the need to start catching up on shows you missed last night on Hulu, which shouldn\u2019t take long since these shows are only about 20 minutes long. But then you happen to glance at the clock again and, “ARE YOU KIDDING? HOW DID I LOSE TWO MORE HOURS ON THIS NONSENSE?!”\u00a0 And now you\u2019re depressed and anxious because all of this mindless clicking means you missed out on everything. Including writing that paper, which will now have you up all night.<\/p>\n

5: What social interaction?<\/strong> Admit it: you’ve IMed someone in the same room as you. If that’s not depressing, I don’t know what is.<\/p>\n

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So according to a recent study, the Internet is making us depressed. While the scientists behind the study link depression to the amount of time spent in a virtual world, I have a few of my own theories as to why the Internet is making us all very, very sad. 1: Checking on the Ex.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}