Posted on 01/27/2013 6:18:24 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
(Reuters) - Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers.
A study conducted jointly by two German universities found rampant envy on Facebook, the world's largest social network that now has over one billion users and has produced an unprecedented platform for social comparison.
The researchers found that one in three people felt worse after visiting the site and more dissatisfied with their lives, while people who browsed without contributing were affected the most.
"We were surprised by how many people have a negative experience from Facebook with envy leaving them feeling lonely, frustrated or angry," researcher Hanna Krasnova from the Institute of Information Systems at Berlin's Humboldt University told Reuters.
"From our observations some of these people will then leave Facebook or at least reduce their use of the site," said Krasnova, adding to speculation that Facebook could be reaching saturation point in some markets.
Researchers from Humboldt University and from Darmstadt's Technical University found vacation photos were the biggest cause of resentment with more than half of envy incidents triggered by holiday snaps on Facebook.
Social interaction was the second most common cause of envy as users could compare how many birthday greetings they received to those of their Facebook friends and how many "likes" or comments were made on photos and postings.
"Passive following triggers invidious emotions, with users mainly envying happiness of others, the way others spend their vacations and socialize," the researchers said in the report "Envy on Facebook: A Hidden Threat to Users' Life Satisfaction?" released on Tuesday.
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Just customer service Ma’am.
Nothing more.
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My GS’s sent me things that way before ... and I keep forgetting to save the link.
Yea for YOU cuz now I can turn around and mess with him.
You are correct. I need to get a life. ;)
I got hooked into it a few years ago by some relatives; but as soon as I could find a way out and off that I took it. - A friend’s DIL would post photos of her house, redecorating projects on FB, would post what time they were going somewhere, where they were going, and when they’d be back. Then, one day, they were robbed. I guess that learnt her. - I never really got all that good at “blocking” this one and that one, posted often, so guess lots of people thought me uncool - which I guess I am. It was a while before I finally figured out that some “friends” delighted in blocking me, and also posting “hot” little photos of their grandkids. That always puzzled me why they’d do that.
No god damn way I would sign on to that or any other face book!!!
Facebook. Where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the kids are above average.
It’s internet high school.
I have a couple of Fakebook friends, a pair whom I actually have met and know, unlike most of my “friends”, almost all of them in fact, who are both well-to-do independent professionals in the medical trade, and who like to travel and post cheesey pictures of themselves posing in exotic locations. They’ve been everywhere, man. I don’t ever envy them, only question their sanity,patience and tolerance of discomfort (without of course telling them that.)
I'm not on F.B. but I do use the internet and everybody knows that if it's on the internet, it has to be the truth and F.B. is on the internet, so they have to go by the same rules.
I use Facebook anymore to link anti-Obama stuff. That’s about it.
Facebook is the C.B. radio of the 21st. century good buddy.
Gotta a big 10-4 for that?
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Hey, Michigander dipshit...
Back off on cat attacks. We like life here, be it canine or feline.
I couldn’t find a Feinstein page that had comments. Must have been looking at the wrong ones,
https://www.facebook.com/DianneFeinstein?fref=ts
Pick a post from Dianne. Any thread. Any. They’re really REALLY mad at her.
I wish we had enough people really, really mad at the DNC.
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