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The researchers had 216 college students fill out a questionnaire that would determine if they were depressed or not, then they examined how they spent their time online. They correlated the two metrics and came up with several findings.

They found that the more a participant's score on the survey indicated depression, the more the person's Internet usage included sharing files like movies and music.

They also found participants with depressive symptoms tended to engage in very high email usage.

"This perhaps was to be expected: research by the psychologists Janet Morahan-Martin and Phyllis Schumacher has shown that frequent checking of email may relate to high levels of anxiety, which itself correlates with depressive symptoms," the Times report says.