Study Links Multiple Media Usage To Depression and Anxiety

I find this interesting on multiple levels, because identifying depression in high school students is an extremely difficult task to attempt. Anxiety aside, students are constantly multi-tasking or attempting to multi-task during the school day. If they are working on a computer (web or application) they are more than likely using their phone for something: music, Twitter, or messages. Based on this research, I don't think that necessarily makes them depressed, but I can see how it could lead to it. I find it funny that when one person is texting, it seems that regardless of the need, the other person will at least check for new messages on their own phone. Kind of like saying I would rather talk to anyone else than have to wait on you.  I'm as guilty as anyone about using technology, sometimes more than one at a time, but I do have moments when I miss the days before cell phones, tablets, and other handheld devices - when you had to run to the phone if you got a call or when you received letters in the mail.  These are the reasons people should be depressed, not because we have developed into an instant gratification society that needs constant contact with others, whether we know them or not.