People who only compare themselves with others on SNS turned out to be very often depressive symptoms

ByDavi Ozolin

In Facebook, which is a real name social networking service (SNS), daily happenings of your friends and acquaintances are shared, so you can easily know the trend of estrangers for a while . However, it is clear from the announcement of the University of Houston that if you just compare yourself with others on Facebook, it will adversely affect your mental health.

UH Study Links Facebook Use to Depressive Symptoms - University of Houston
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One of the SNS 'Facebook' is a useful tool for finding new friends and contacting old friends again. However, those who are just peering at the friends' everyday life carefully check what other people are doing and compare themselves with themselves.

Mary Steearth, a researcher at the University of Houston, said the results of investigating such Facebook addicting users as "Journal of Social and Clinical PsychologyIt is said that those who are publishing on the above and who spend a lot of time on Facebook on "comparing themselves with others" may have deep connection with depression symptoms.

Mr. Steearth conducts two studies, as users may only be comparing themselves with friends on Facebook as they may have negative effects. Experimental results show that Facebook users feel depressed when comparing themselves with others, but Facebook does not feel a depressing mood, but a "depressed mood" and "Facebook "It is closely related to" to spend a lot of time with other people "and" to compare yourself with others ", says Mr. Steeath.

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Mr. Steearth conducted two different experiments and found that the relevance between "total time spent on Facebook" and "depressive symptoms" is largely dependent on whether you compare yourself with others on Facebook I will discover. In other words, users who spend a lot of time comparing themselves with others on Facebook are often depressive symptoms.

Comparing yourself with other people using SNS may have negative effects on human emotions. Facebook brings the information of others who you do not normally know and offers the opportunity to compare themselves with others. Since SNS does not know what friends will post in advance, it seems that you can not suppress the impulse to compare with your current situation. In addition, since many people post only good events in their lives on Facebook, users compare themselves with the highlight scenes of their friends, the lives of others seem to be good, depressed Maybe it makes me feel.

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According to Mr. Styers, people who compare themselves with friends after spending a lot of time on Facebook, who suffer spiritually in the gap with them are particularly prone to depressive symptoms.

The research on the conventional SNS and the research published by Mr. Steeys shows that the comparison with other people is closely related to the feeling that destroys their own in the long run. A useful point by comparing with other people is temporary, and if you frequently compare yourself with others, you need to pay sufficient attention as it will lead to a situation where your heart will not be satisfied. Mr. Steearth hopes his own research results would help "understand that technological advances bring about intended results and unintended consequences" and reduce Facebook usage that is at risk of depressive symptoms I also hope to make recommendations.