Facebook Reveals Language of Loneliness vs. Depression
Briefly

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Purdue University, Stanford University, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse analyzed Facebook posts to differentiate language associated with depression and with loneliness.The researchers obtained consent to collect 3.4 million posts from nearly 3,000 individuals, then administered depression and loneliness surveys to measure psychological states and feelings of social isolation before linguistically screening the posts for loneliness- and depression-related language.
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