It's " National Facebook Unfriend Day ," and it might be a good time to tidy up social media. Clinical psychologist Suzana Flores knows the impact of lingering relationships on social media, telling Bustle in 2015:"Seventy percent of people stalk their exes on social media," says Flores, author of "Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Our Lives." A 2016 study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found anxiety and depression more prevalent in social media users who had negative interactions on social media, and less common in users who had "positive interactions, social support, and social connectedness" on social media. If you feel bombarded on social media with angry page-long posts about politics, don't feel guilty about "unfriending" them today. Vogel's reminder to all social media users: don't be too bummed over losing some Facebook friends or Instagram followers this "Unfriend Day."

Source: CNN November 17, 2019 09:56 UTC