4 reasons to abandon social networks


It all starts with a curiosity. Your friends are there and do not stop to comment on the new social network of the moment. You go in, and nuzzles like. Install the application on mobile to not miss the news of your news feed. At any moment, there is going to check who likes your post, your photos, your comments. Ready: you're hooked.
And it will become more addicted to social networks than in cigarettes. That's what showed study by researchers at the University of Chicago. For a week, 205 volunteers reported every half hour, which were the strongest desires they felt at that moment. They even resisted the consumerist and sexual impulses, but not could stand when it came to checking Facebook. The desire to tweak on social networks was greater than that of doing anything else. Up smoking.
Then you do not repress and nuzzles it. Not only gives other people's news, but also put a lot of cool photos. And this runs the risk of losing friends. Yeah. Is that going to always have someone else jealous - your friends that were left out or your love. And their level of intimacy with these people to fall.
At least they told the 500 people who took part in a British survey. They told the scientists how often some friends filled the feed them with photos, how they felt, what was the level of intimacy with that person. Most moved away from colleagues who exhibited a lot in social networks. Except of course when they were very close friends or relatives.
Well, if it was not enough to lose the sympathy of some known, you still run the risk of gaining weight. And stay poor. The research time comes there of Columbia universities and Pittsburgh. They invited 541 people to a joke. Party had access to social networks, while others do not. After a waiting time, they should choose between a cookie and a chocolate cereal bar. Who had fuçado Facebook used to prefer the former option. This group also showed more willing to follow consumerist impulses and toast all the money wantonly.
It is a side effect of his good relationship with friends left over. "When people use Facebook they are happier with themselves," explains Andrew Stephen, co-author of the study. "And people who feel good tend to be less control. They give permission to extrapolate on some things, "he concludes.
The most curious thing is that you might not look so happy. See other people's Facebook can make you a little depressed. The Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge sociologists, the Utah Valley University, interviewed 425 students to see if they were happy or not with life, and friends seemed to be happy. And they told how long a day was online. The conclusion: that spend most time on social networks tended to find the most interesting lives of others - and his life boring. It is easy to see why. People tend to report more about happy than sad moments in the virtual world. Then it seems that the days of them, always so interesting, never have bad weather.