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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-the-more-you-use-facebook-the-worse-you-feelThe average Facebook user spends almost an hour on the site every day, according to data provided by the company last year. A Deloitte survey found that for many smartphone users, checking social media apps are the first thing they do in the morning often before even getting out of bed. Of course, social interaction is a healthy and necessary part of human existence. Thousands of studies have concluded that most human beings thrive when they have strong, positive relationships with other human beings.
The challenge is that most of the work on social interaction has been conducted using real world, face-to-face social networks, in contrast to the types of online relationships that are increasingly common. So, while we know that old-fashioned social interaction is healthy, what about social interaction that is completely mediated through an electronic screen? When you wake up in the morning and tap on that little blue icon, what impact does it have on you?
Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face-to-face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful activities, increase sedentary behavior by encouraging more screen time, lead to internet addiction, and erode self-esteem through unfavorable social comparison. Self-comparison can be a strong influence on human behavior, and because people tend to display the most positive aspects of their lives on social media, it is possible for an individual to believe that their own life compares negatively to what they see presented by others. But some skeptics have wondered if perhaps people with lower well-being are more likely to use social media, rather than social media causing lower well-being. Moreover, other studies have found that social media use has a positive impact on well-being through increased social support and reinforcement of real world relationships.
We wanted to get a clearer picture of the relationship between social media use and well-being. In our study, we used three waves of data from 5,208 adults from a national longitudinal panel maintained by the Gallup organization, coupled with several different measures of Facebook usage, to see how well-being changed over time in association with Facebook use. Our measures of well-being included life satisfaction, self-reported mental health, self-reported physical health, and body-mass index (BMI). Our measures of Facebook use included liking others posts, creating ones own posts, and clicking on links. We also had measures of respondents real-world social networks. In each wave, respondents were asked to name up to four friends with whom they discuss important matters and up to four friends with whom they spend their free time, so that each participant could name up to a total of eight unique individuals.
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A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel (Original Post)
G_j
Apr 2017
OP
Weird, I'd think the study should be about using smartphones for HOURS every day
KittyWampus
Apr 2017
#7
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)1. What about Democratic Underground?
dawg
(10,624 posts)3. Well I'm not on Facebook at all.
And I already feel like shit.
Quitting FB 2 years was a wonderful choice.
I quit when it became a full time job keeping up with their Byzantine privacy settings. Do not miss it one bit
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)6. Depends on how you use FB
On FB my posts are rarely political and rarely serious. Fake news, politics and drama gets deleted, so most of my feed is funny posts and dog posts.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)7. Weird, I'd think the study should be about using smartphones for HOURS every day
7 days a week.
Smart phones are the modern day lead pipes.
It's not Facebook, it's connectivity and people's addiction to it.
malaise
(269,157 posts)8. No wonder I'm so happy
No Facebook ever
hunter
(38,322 posts)9. Could be worse... like TV news. Not just FOX, all of it...
DU is my only "social media" obsession.
There's no normalization or sugar-coating here of GOP atrocities, certainly no Brainwashed Evangelical Christians claiming Trump was God's gift to the world...