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1. Makes perfect sense.

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 03:50 PM

Apr 2014

The number of people living in a household partially determined how much less likely an individual was to be depressed,

leads logically to:

and the reduction in depression was most significant among survey participants who lived alone.

Even tho I do not do facebook, I can easily see how much it means to my elderly neighbors who have distant family.

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Study: Using the Internet can reduce depression among older adults by 33 percent [View all] unhappycamper Apr 2014 OP

Makes perfect sense. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2014 #1

That really does make sense. pengillian101 Apr 2014 #2