Study reveals why you can not be satisfied with life as you use Facebook

ByRishi Bandopadhay

FacebookIt should have been enjoyed by being hooked on, but recently it is melancholy and painful to update somehow ... it seems to call the symptoms common to Facebook users "Facebook exhausted". Such a way that supports Facebook tiredness "People use Facebook for dissatisfaction with life"The research result that was made was issued.

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Professor Ethan Cross of the University of Michigan and Professor Philippe Berdouin of the University of Leuven in Belgium have tracked Facebook users for a long time and studied how emotions changed.

In the experiments, Facebook users from late teens to early twenties participated as volunteers, 2 weeks, behavior on Facebook was observed, social contact such as emotional description and telephone and meeting five times a day, a short questionnaire Submission was requested.

ByEd Yourdon

When researchers analyze the survey results,Emotions written to the questionnaire as Facebook gets used will gradually get worseIt turned out that it was.

In addition, volunteers were asked about "percentage of satisfaction to living" at the beginning and the end of the experiment,People who use Facebook on a daily basis tend to be less satisfied than people who use Facebook only occasionallyI also found out.

In contrast, there is a clear relationship between volunteer's "real social contact" and "how much felt it is positive"The more they come into contact with people in the real world, the more they fill in the questionnaire with positive opinionsDid. This result had nothing to do with the sex of volunteer, the size of social network, frequency of using Facebook, loneliness, the size of self-esteem, etc.

As a result, Dr. Cross and Dr. Berdouin "Facebook harms rather than enhances peace of mind"I concluded. Ironical result that it should have used Facebook in search of "connection", but rather a sense of uneasiness is formed ... ....

ByCharis Tsevis

However, the research by Dr. Cross and Dr. Beldouin does not reveal the answer "Why is the emotion different from real world exchanges and face-to-face exchanges different?"

Research that is likely to become this answer is announced at a meeting held at Humboldt University and Darmstadt Technical University in Germany and was held in Leipzig in February.

Researchers found that the majority of 584 people surveyed Facebook users in their 20s,The most stimulated feelings by using Facebook are "jealous"It turned out to be. A Facebook user is jealous by looking at a colleague who writes a reworked photo, an inflated record, a quote borrowed from somewhere, and comparing with him. In the real world it's impossible to clean up with 'look at it', but everyone on Facebook is trying to exaggerate and show you better, which means that jealousy will sprout.

ByChristoph Aigner

In these studies it has been made clear whether the results of experiments are targeted at relatively young users and whether the results that "Facebook can not be satisfied with life" are unique to young users not. Well, if older, mature Facebook users are less envious of a friend 's success story (including true lies). Further experiment results are awaited.