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Excessive Facebook browsing at Christmas, and seeing "perfect" family photos posted by others, is more likely to make you miserable, reports the BBC on a paper recently published by a graduate at the University of Copenhagen. The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being.
Researchers warn of envy and a "deterioration of mood" from spending too long looking at other people's social media stories, induced by "unrealistic social comparisons".
Actively engaging in conversation and connecting with people on social media seems to be a much more positive experience, suggests the study, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking.
This seems to be much less gloomy than "passive" users who spend too long "lurking" on social networking websites without getting involved.
The study also suggests benefits from stopping using social media altogether for a week.
You may not be surprised to learn that similar studies have been published in the past. (No reports yet from the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious.)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:18AM
Merry Christmas jackass. Hope that yule log doesn't get stuck up your ass like last year.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:34AM
I was struck, many years ago, attending a Catholic Mass, and hearing the Opus Dei priest intone "and Peace on Earth, to those who agree with us." Actually had to go look up the original Greek, which runs, "καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη, ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκία." That's ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκία, or people of good opinion (εὐ- "good", or "well", as in eulogy, and δοκία, or δόξα, "opinion" from δοκεῖν, to think.") So I guess that those who agree with us would be the ones with good opinions, right-thinking folks, as Americans might say. So Merry Solstice to you, AC, and may the coming year improve your online manners and reasoning abilities in general.