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Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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stephengillie wrote: post #8
manishsharan wrote: post #3

I can relate to this study --- even though I am not a young adult like the subjects of this study. I stopped using Facebook a few months ago because I couldn't handle how it made me feel. I am bootstrapping a start-up ,working insane hours and depriving my family of the comforts/luxuries that I could have afforded when I had a corporate job. I am really happy that my friends are spending their summer vacation at reso…

Going on Facebook, I see how everyone's social life is better than mine. Going on Hacker News, I see how everyone's startup is doing better than my failed attempt. Going on Hackaday, I see how everyone's working on cooler projects than mine. The only place I feel good about myself is at work.

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Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Post by woodchuck64 »

Zimahl wrote: post #47
enraged_camel wrote: post #26

I'm currently in-between girlfriends, and even though it is silly, I admit that I feel a pang of jealousy when my friends post pictures on Facebook showing how happy they are with their significant others. So even though this article talks about a shaky self-reported study with a low sample size, I think they are absolutely on to something. I can relate to the findings almost perfectly. Facebook is one big game of "k…

or that they got in a huge fight with their s/o right after posting pictures of hugs and kisses. My wife's friend talks to her all the time about how her and her husband are constantly fighting and their marriage is falling apart. I hear this second hand but I'd never know that from all the lovey Facebook posts and pictures. Another couple we are friends with is just 'perfect' and 'cute' on Facebook but the husband i…

The human species has evolved over eons to use complex social face-to-face interaction to see through the lies we naturally put on about our prowess as mates or allies. But Facebook is a whole 'nother thing; the world's worst sociopaths can look and sound perfectly normal on Facebook and no one has any way to tell the difference.

Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Post by beachstartup »

devindotcom wrote: post #22
karpathy wrote: post #13

82 participants. 3 participants did not complete. 1 person excluded as inconsistent > 4SD. Study comes down to: Participants were text-messaged 5 times per day between 10am and midnight over 14-days. """ Each text-message contained a link to an online survey, which asked participants to answer five questions using a slider scale: (1) How do you feel right now? (very positive [0] to very negative [100]; M = 37.47, SD…

Also, every participant was an undergrad at a single university - not that that's an uncommon thing for psych studies!

in almost every lower division psychology class i took, i remember they forced us to participate in experiments as part of our grade. and not just one or two, either. i remember it was a huge pain in the ass.

one of the many reasons i graduated university with a C average.

Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Post by D9u »

I quit using Facebook (deleted account) nearly two years ago, and I don't miss it at all...

Back when it was less commercial, and when you were expected to actually know the people on your "Friends List" in real life, it was a fun way to reconnect with old classmates, workmates, and Army buddies.

Now it's just another data mining advertising machine, and I can do quite well without it.

Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Post by droidist2 »

prezjordan wrote: post #40
droidist2 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides.

Wow, love that line. Source?

I think I first heard it in the movie 28 Days with Sandra Bullock, but I believe it was already a popular saying in AA and other types of self help and therapy.

Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Post by jff »

solistice wrote: post #43
eksith wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very true. In HS or college, how much you'll enjoy it depends on your perspective and what you expect from the crowd as well. I never mingled with the shallow crowd (boy, that really sounds pompous; but it's true) because I knew I wouldn't get much out of that experience. But like HS and college, Facebook has its own variety of groups you mingle with and those you avoid with a 10 foot pole. That said, I avoid all of…

You totally missed out on toying with the shallow crowd. Shallow people are just that, shallow, so they're rather easy to calculate. Since they usually annoy me to no end, I'll sooner or later resort to the people equivalent of cow tipping. I act perfectly well adjusted, and for a moment, a glint of madness, just enough that they question things. Best case scenario is that they question their facilities of judgement…

Wow, you're the fucking puppet master, I tip my fedora.

Re: Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'

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Post by skeletonjelly »

cwarrior wrote: post #37
benched wrote: post #29

As a lonely, single, childless, unpropertied, mediocre 35-year-old, any exposure to anybody else's life, excepting the homeless, makes me feel worse about myself.

You don't know what demons those people are fighting on their daily lives.

Ain't that the truth. Goes for anybody you see in public too. It's easy when you're down to think that everyone else has it rough. I find it's only when you ask questions or read bios of people that you get a sense of how connected we are in are daily struggle as humans.
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