Is Facebook envy making you miserable?
By Belinda Goldsmith
updated 1/22/2013 10:48:20 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) – Witnessing friends’ vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers.
A study conducted jointly by two German universities found rampant envy on Facebook, the world’s largest social network that now has over one billion users and has produced an unprecedented platform for social comparison.
The researchers found that one in three people felt worse after visiting the site and more dissatisfied with their lives, while people who browsed without contributing were affected the most.
“We were surprised by how many people have a negative experience from Facebook with envy leaving them feeling lonely, frustrated or angry,” researcher Hanna Krasnova from the Institute of Information Systems at Berlin’s Humboldt University told Reuters.
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50549322/ns/business-us_business/t/facebook-envy-making-you-miserable/#.UQBBKvJS04S
I’m not on Facebook, and I’m not envious of people who are.
I think that most of the stuff you read on facebook is all false – its people just trying to make themselves sound important, happy, in love, whatever!!! Look at the amount of stuff there and you will see it is from the same people – I am doing this, oh, I am doing that….BS!!!! Real people, with real jobs, real homes and REAL LIVES, are too busy to be spending their time on such crap!!!
It is a digital version of the “brag book” that our parents used to carry. It is a way to let the world know that your offspring/spouse accomplished something. College acceptance made a big appearance this year.
Google narcissism and Facebook and there will be plenty to read.