This research study pertains to my research project in that it shows how social

networking sites can be advantageous to healthy well-being by providing for a sense of

“social support” to its users based on how popular they are on the networking site. The

study gives examples of how this created sense of social support builds on psychological

health through perception and larger friend lists on Facebook, which is relevant to the

“for” side of my research topic. This research study presents clear evidence that

interpersonal social support impacts stress levels and, in turn, degree of physical illness

and psychological well-being. This study examines whether mediated social networks

contribute to this. The study was based on a survey of 401 undergraduate Facebook users.

The initial predictions turned out to agree with the final results of the study. The final

results revealed that the larger number of Facebook friends associated with a user the

stronger perceptions of social support, which in turn associated with reduced stress, along

with less physical illness and greater well-being. This effect directly involves when

interpersonal network size was taken into consideration. The study discusses that for

those who have experienced many objective life stressors, the number of Facebook

friends emerged as the stronger predictor of perceived social support. The "more-friends-

the-better" heuristic is the main focal point of this study. The article gives statistics and

data as well on the amount of users of social media globally and how social networking

sites can benefit its users from all over the world.