Study: Posting Facebook Photos Negatively Impacts Real-Life Relationships
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August 10, 2013 4:01 PM
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – A new study finds that sharing, or over-sharing, your photographs on Facebook may have a significant negative impact on real-life relationships.
According to research from the University of Birmingham, University West of England and the University of Edinburgh, people who frequently post photos to Facebook can’t control how their various “friends” will perceive the posts.
“It’s worth remembering that the information we post to our ‘friends’ on Facebook, actually gets viewed by lots of different categories of people: partners; friends; family; colleagues and acquaintances,” said Dr. David Houghton, lead author of the report, told Phys.org. “And each group seems to take a different view of the information shared.