The Washington Post reports that research has drawn a connection between Facebook use and symptoms of depression, thanks to our tendency to compare ourselves and our lives to the images our “friends” project on the social network. The study, titled “Seeing Everyone Else’s Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms” and published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, found that “The more time you spend on Facebook, the more likely it is for you to feel depressive symptoms,” according to lead author Mai-Ly Steers, a PhD candidate in social psychology at the University of Houston. “The underlying mechanism is social comparison. So essentially the reason you feel these feelings is that you tend to socially compare yourself to your friends.”