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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:54AM
First post is Crowfard, crowing about how you should envy his success.
Go back under your bridge!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:07AM
The good news is, now that he has an employer, he won't have to sleep under a bridge. He can sleep in his office like all of Google and Apple do.
That's how you know you've made it to the big leagues.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:22AM
The suicide nets are also hammocks.
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Saturday December 24 2016, @06:09PM
If you've been following his blog on this site, you would know he already does not sleep under a bridge.
Michael, congratulations.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 24 2016, @11:45PM
I have to admit that Soylent was right, in that accepting the subsidized housing enabled me to get back to work.
Soon I'll be paying my own rent.
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