Current Opinion in Psychology

• Facebook use has recently been linked to depression and negative affectivity. • Unflattering social comparison and envy are common experiences for Facebook users. • Envy and social comparison mediate correlations between Facebook use and depression. • Facebook research sheds new light on the relationship between envy and depression. • Further experiments and experience sampling should corroborate causal links.

The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression