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This paper reviews an article titled, “The Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Social Media Usage: A Gender-Specific Analysis of a Chinese University Student Sample” by Tao Cai, Xiangdong Li, Yun Chi, Ruidong Wan & Mingyue Chen. The survey data of 998 Chinese college students was used to determine gender differences between social media use frequency, type and severity. In their study the authors found that higher frequencies of using Facebook were linked with higher scores on measures of depression, while using WhatsApp was associated with lower scores on those same measures – though only standard interactions (not newsfeeds) yielded this result; they also noted gender discrepancies across all platforms. These findings led them to conclude that more research was needed to better understand how users feel when they use different social media platforms. They also noted gender differences across all platforms.