The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
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Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#2Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14082130
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#3Does this still hold up? 95% of my facebook feed is now shared posts that aren’t related to things my friends are doing, and are often posts about products. There is almost nothing I see on facebook that invites social comparison with my facebook friends any more.
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#4Does this still hold up? 95% of my facebook feed is now shared posts that aren’t related to things my friends are doing, and are often posts about products. There is almost nothing I see on facebook that invites social comparison with my facebook friends any more.
From what you describe it sure seems true. You log onto a website looking for social interaction and instead get a face full of corporate messaging? Sounds isolating, depressing.
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#5I dunno. After moving to the valley and leaving all my friends behind, social media is my one connection to anyone besides my wife. I don't compare myself to people on SM and feel bad. I see my friends and family and generally feel good.
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#6I dunno. After moving to the valley and leaving all my friends behind, social media is my one connection to anyone besides my wife. I don't compare myself to people on SM and feel bad. I see my friends and family and generally feel good.
I guess people look at you on social media and feel bad about themselves
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#7> Although we can show that Facebook use seems to lead to diminished well-being
How do you define "diminished well-being"?
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#8Does this still hold up? 95% of my facebook feed is now shared posts that aren’t related to things my friends are doing, and are often posts about products. There is almost nothing I see on facebook that invites social comparison with my facebook friends any more.
IMO it still holds true if you consider Instagram as part of Facebook.
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#9I have been working in this problem space for the past year or so developing a new kind of social media that I think has some merits. Take away the advertisement model, the public nature of discourse, and replace it with meaningful context-driven one-on-one conversation and I think we might have something. My platform can take any topic and disseminate a discussion to as many one-on-one conversations as people who are willing to participate. https://www.confidist.com -- Would appreciate it if anyone wants to take a look at the current build. Cheers -Nicholas
Re: The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
#10I dunno. After moving to the valley and leaving all my friends behind, social media is my one connection to anyone besides my wife. I don't compare myself to people on SM and feel bad. I see my friends and family and generally feel good.
I wonder if being on Facebook reduces your motivation to build new friendships (it does take some work) since it allows you (with little effort) to maintain some form of very limited remote relationship? Maybe without Facebook, we (remote people) would be more motivated to build new local, face to face, and fulfilling friendships?