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[quote=MARRIE,459336]By Anita Patil (The New York Times)

"I don't really like my friends," complains Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) in the 1989 film "Heathers," a cult classic about cliques, suicide and jocks in high school. Jason Dean (Christian Slater) responds: "I don't really like your friends either."

Those lines were spoken long before Facebook or Foursquare. Imagine how we feel now, when we are bombarded by our friends' thoughts, feelings, desires and destinations through a constant stream of status updates, links, tweets and photos. Jealousy, annoyance and resentment can bubble up.

"I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn't invited to!" Laurie David, an author and Hollywood producer, told The Times.

A study in January in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking found that the more time people spent on Facebook, the happier they perceived their friends to be and the sadder they felt as a consequence.

Why are you at home when social networking alerts inform you that your friends are at a bar or restaurant? Feelings of anxiety, regret and inadequacy flare up, a combination that Jenna Wortham of The Times describes as FOMO, or "fear of missing out."

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