Today’s Solutions: April 14, 2026

Accepting more friendship requests on Facebook is associated with lower mortality, according to a study released Monday.  Researchers examined data from 12 million California Facebook profiles that was made anonymous, along with public California records, over a two-year period. They found that those in the top 10 percent of accepted friendship requests had a mortality rate two-thirds of those in the bottom 10 percent. The associational study jibes with other research finding that people with more friends…

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