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IT’S OFFICIAL – FACEBOOK makes you miserable.
With over 1.5 billion active accounts, the social media website is ubiquitous in many people’s lives now.
And Facebook comes into its own over the festive season, as the platform for commemorating work parties, family reunions, and the awe-struck little faces on Christmas morning after Santa has slung his hook.
But it has a dark side. According to a new study, all that lurking and liking is more likely to make you miserable than merry.
Excessive use of social media can lead to increased envy. The study warned that “lurking” on social media – viewing without communicating – can have particularly negative consequences.
Among the study’s findings were:
Satisfaction
The study, carried out by scientists at the University of Copenhagen and published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking, also suggests taking a break from using social media.
It said:
[R]egular use of social networking such as Facebook can negatively affect your emotional wellbeing and satisfaction with life.
The research examined 1,000 participants, who were divided into two groups. One cohort continued its usual Facebook usage, while another took a break from the site.
Wellbeing
The study found that the treatment group reported a statistically significant improvement in wellbeing after a week without Facebook.
The change was related to how much time they had previously spent on Facebook – and whether or not they were passive users and tended to envy others on the site.
The authors found envy and a “deterioration of mood” from spending too much time viewing at other people’s social media narratives, a situation compounded by “unrealistic social comparisons”.
Yet actively connecting and communicating with people on social media seems to offer a more positive experience, the study said.
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Is Michael Healy-Ray really that stupid ,,,,, Looks like the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree !!!!!
yes they are , and the very ones, that has there bread buttered by him , i heard , that these guys run, co, Kerry ,if your not with, them your out, and stay out ?. local Mafioso, i here say .big fish in small ponds .
How on earth did that amadan Healy Rae get elected , are people in constituency really that thick????
maybe we could put the dog into the dail instead of micheal.
As a farmer said to me ‘why should I indicate ,sure everybody knows where I’m going .’ The rural attitude to visitors/tourists is that they should deposit their money at the county boundary and not annoy the natives with demands for service, unspoilt countryside etc. It takes a Healy-Rae to actually come out and say this ; tell us more Michael.
Michael Healy Rae your ignorance knows absolutely no bounds!!
Michael Healy Rae is supported by the plain people of Kerry – crap goes in, crap comes out.
It’s bloody obvious Micheal Healy Rae is a man that can smell money a mile away. He must be doing a reality tv show soon and needs the cash for the phone and text votes. This is the Td who cut the grass of developers houses in my estate only last summer after he was elected. He even had his ‘vote no1′ stickers still on his van with his picture so there was no denying it was him. My ghost estate is in north cork so he drove a bit from Kerry to help the developer who is living it up in the uk!
I live in the country, and I know my way around. I have to say, country driving, particularly people over a certain age and in a certain profession, is shocking bad. No indicating, lucky if there’s one working brake light on the car. If a trailer is being towed, good luck. Then you can actually see the driver looking everywhere but the road. I usually have a rant about this a few times a week, when I’m stuck behind some numpty who doesn’t indicate, no brake light on the trailer, thinks road signs are just decorations for the roadside. And that Healy-Rae lad is a bigger numpty for questioning the need for road signs.
It says much for his chosen career that he is able to function as a member of the Dail, most of the political class see their job as being ” gettin in then gettin as much as they can ” this applies to most countries so we shouldn’t feel superior, but we do have a very good class of gobshites.
In a lot of rural areas, the local yooves tend to take great delight in turning the signs. And a turned sign is defintely worse than no sign at all! Many’s the time I’ve headed off in the wrong direction thanks to a bit of late-night shenanigans.
No money in signs as they are put in by the NRA also the bank hopes to “return to sustainable profitability by 2014.” by robbing the less well off..
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