In the article “Could a lot of time spent on social media be linked to depression? “, author Alan Mozes talked about recent research conducted to find the relationship between social media and depression. 1,800 men and women aged between 19 and 32 participated in the study. The main question behind this finding was: Is increased social media engagement linked to depression, or are depressed people being drawn into social media? Dr. Brian Patrick suggested three types of expected findings from the study: One of the strongest possibilities is that people who have depressive symptoms tend to use social media more often because they don't feel the energy to interact with new people. The second possibility is that increased use of social media may lead to depressive thoughts. The final possibility is that depressed people turn to social media to make their depression worse. This is a study based on the association between social media and depression and not on cause and effect. The researchers had created a questionnaire that asked participants the amount of time spent on popular social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine and Linkedln. This research found that on average participants checked social media 20 times a week for more than an hour a day and 1/4 of participants appeared to be at high risk for depression. Along with this, researchers found that people who are more present on social media are 2.7 times more likely to be depressed than people who are less present on social media. In concluding the findings, Dr. Patrick stated that these findings do not suggest that every person who spends more time on s...... middle of paper ……tool. Both articles above had talked about different topics, one was how social media is linked to depression and another was how learning musical instruments helps develop the brain. Both studies had used different techniques: the first paper used the questioner to ask people how much time they spent online on the popular social media site, and another used electrodes to observe their brain responses. Both articles should need more solid research, as they are skeptical in their own ways. In the first article there is no reliable connection between social media and depression. In the second article, to test the study they use electrodes to test the brain process. It is strong so that it can explain brain activity, but there is a lack of strong evidence that could support the brain activity report.