{"id":52863,"date":"2012-06-18T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52863"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:45:11","slug":"internet-usage-patterns-could-signal-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/52863-internet-usage-patterns-could-signal-depression.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet usage patterns could signal depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>A new study shows that internet users who suffer from depression have different tendencies while online.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology asked 216 college students to complete a questionnaire to determine whether they were depressed, and then asked further questions to examine their usage patterns online.<\/p>\n

Some of the behaviour of users suffering from depression includes obsessively checking emails, watching lots of videos and switching frequently among multiple apps.<\/p>\n

“This didn’t mean snooping on what the students were looking at or whom they were e-mailing; it merely meant monitoring how they were using the Internet — information about traffic flow that the university customarily collects for troubleshooting network connections and such,” the researchers said.<\/p>\n

Source: Cnet<\/a><\/h5>\n

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