Facebook is probably the most popular networking site of all time, making our social lives livelier and being able to connect with loved ones wherever they are in the world.

But just like any great invention, Facebook has its drawbacks. First, there was Facebook Envy. And then there was Facebook Depression.

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Now, researchers are pointing to the use of Facebook as the culprit on why an increasing number of young women are hating their bodies.

Two United States universities surveyed 881 female college students. The students were asked a myriad of questions ranging  from their Facebook use to their eating and exercise activities and body image.

The results showed that although Facebook use was not linked to eating disorder, it made the women more insecure about their bodies.

The research said that the more these women spend numerous hours on Facebook and other social networks, looking at selfies and pictures of friends, the more they feel bad about their bodies and feel more insecure.

The research stated that poor body image is prone to happen in social media since those involved are people the users know. This is aside from popular and traditional media which constantly bombard the users with sexy celebrity pictures.

Research also showed that mass media are partly to blame why young women feel inadequate compared to their friends.There is the pressure to look good and thin and sexy as celebrity shots dominate the pages of Facebook users.

The young women are left blaming themselves on their appearance upon seeing their friends' photos and selfies. The report said that these celebrity images in the Internet are  downright unrealistic but social media users continue to pressure themselves to look a certain way.

"Spending more time on Facebook is not connected to developing a bad relationship with food, but there is a connection to poor body image," Petya Eckler, of the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, told the BBC.

According to the spokesperson of an eating disorder charity, body image is most often a part of our identity and not a whimsical desire to be vain.