Social media is used by so many of us for a variety of reasons. If you use social media for emotional support issues, such as loneliness, two new studies from Oregon State University warrant your attention. The first study shows social media is a poor substitute for real-life relationships. Published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, it found people with the lowest levels of real-life emotional support had more than eight times the odds of loneliness as those with the highest levels of real-life relationships. Another aspect of social media use comes from the second Oregon State Study. It found people who turned to social media soon after waking were strongly associated with depression, no matter how much or how little they signed on to social media later in the day. That study appears in the Journal of Prevention.