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Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find Two separate studies have emerged pointing to the conclusion that for all its popularity, Facebook is actually making people unhappy. The first study, conducted by researchers from New Zealand's University of Canterbury, sought to determine how people felt about the various activities that they spent time on during the day. Researcher Carsten Grimm used a technique known as "experience sampling," sending text messages to people to ask what they were doing and how they ranked the activity in terms of pleasure, engagement, meaningfulness and happiness. "I texted people three times a day over a week and the response rate was really high," Grimm said. "People replied to on average 97 percent of all text-messages, and texts were sent at random times, so there is a really rich sample of everyday life to look at." Spending time on Facebook ranked among the 10 worst activities in terms of unpleasantness and lack of engagement. It was ranked as the least meaningful activity and the one that made people the second-most unhappy, surpassed only by recovering from illness. More friends = More stress Learn more: [ link to www.naturalnews.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 17090286 United States 11/29/2012 08:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find THey're just sad because they have no facebook friends and all the hot chicks don't date them. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28383150 Germany 12/02/2012 12:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28649819 United States 12/02/2012 12:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find It's like a Supercharged Social Keeping Up With the Joneses experience. I like reading because I know what everyone's up to. I rarely post. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12966144 United States 12/02/2012 12:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find Facebook is Keeping Up with the Joneses magnified exponentially. There's two distinct things it causes: covetousness and love of self. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 12966144 United States 12/02/2012 12:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find It's like a Supercharged Social Keeping Up With the Joneses experience. I like reading because I know what everyone's up to. I rarely post.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28649819 Lol. We think alike. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28364075 United States 12/02/2012 12:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find i just signed up
was pretty anxious to throw out those friend requests to people i'd let slip out of my life due to my own problems but it feels good to actually have them accept and at least act happy i got back in touch :) |
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User ID: 1465537 United States 12/02/2012 01:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find Everyone I know that is an avid facebooker lives a miserably envious and empty existence. It is quite sad. in warm pursuit... |
Truthache
User ID: 1465537 United States 12/02/2012 01:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find double post Last Edited by Truthache on 12/02/2012 01:24 AMin warm pursuit... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 28368998 Argentina 12/02/2012 02:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find somehow I already knew |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1663367 Poland 12/14/2012 06:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find Facebook is mostly a display of feathers, and profiles should not be measured at face-value. The pressure to conform is enormous - which is why most people are crushingly unoriginal and parrot each other ad infinitum. Most of the comments consist of strung-together cliche's and worn-out memes that are overused and boring.
Don't fret too much over those perfect lives; they exist only in your imagination. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29847504 United Kingdom 12/14/2012 06:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find Never touched it, not a "dumb fuck" according to its creator. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1663367 Poland 12/14/2012 06:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find
Never touched it, not a "dumb fuck" according to its creator.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29847504 I'm with you there, but it's impossible to ignore. I set up an experimental account (no friends, fake name etc) to explore the possibilities and understand it better. I've concluded that it's a wilderness of horrors. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28039530 United States 12/14/2012 06:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find It's not just facebook making people miserable. It's the whole damn internet. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1663367 Poland 12/14/2012 07:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find It's not just facebook making people miserable. It's the whole damn internet.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28039530 Agreed. Any communication involving electronics has diminished value. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29905576 United States 12/14/2012 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find Fuck facebukk and the zuckerppuke bastard it rode in on. I mean seriously people, if you use facebook more than once a week you have a mental disorder. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 17097168 Australia 12/14/2012 07:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find
Here is why.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29903132 Argentina 12/14/2012 07:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find It's not just facebook making people miserable. It's the whole damn internet.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1663367 Poland 12/14/2012 08:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find In a sense, there's no going back from Facebook - once you've committed yourself. It's almost impossible to reinvent yourself once you make certain associations.
The information which is gatherable is fearsome. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1663367 Poland 12/14/2012 08:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Facebook Is making you miserable, scientists find In a sense, there's no going back from Facebook - once you've committed yourself. It's almost impossible to reinvent yourself once you make certain associations.
The information which is gatherable is fearsome.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1663367 Which is why I always advocate "stumbling" across information, rather than searching for it. |
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