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A recent study showed that certain brain areas expand in people who have greater numbers of friends on Facebook . This was welcome news for online social network addicts, particularly teenagers : "Mom, I'm not just on Facebook ; I'm doing my temporal lobe calisthenics." There was a problem, though

In a series of experiments, Ryota Kanai, a researcher at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, had college students between the ages of 19 and 28 state their Facebook network size, then scanned their brains by MRI.