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Is Facebook bad for you?

Posted by Phil Voice on May 6, 2014 at 7:51am

"And yet Facebook’s effects on its users may not be entirely benign. Some researchers suggest that the ability to connect does not necessarily make people any happier, and it could in fact reduce the satisfaction they feel about their life. Can it really be possible that Facebook makes you sad?"

"The team found that Facebook use correlated with a low sense of well-being. “The more people used Facebook over two-weeks, the more their life satisfaction levels declined over time,” they said. “Rather than enhancing well-being… these findings suggest that Facebook may undermine it.”

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140206-is-facebook-bad-for-you

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  • Peter May 6, 2014 at 5:51pm

    I'm not on it, why anyone would want to waste time on it is beyond me.

  • pete May 6, 2014 at 9:25pm

    comments on facebook have caused some rifts between the younger generations in our family but I like to look in now and then - just found this... reminded me of Chris Nangle's Larry :-)

  • Paul McNulty May 6, 2014 at 9:51pm

    Facebook is just another communication device: saying it's "pointless" or "damaging" is no more useful than saying the telephone is a bad thing because we get the odd unwanted sales call. Or, because there are some really bad TV programmes, we should all throw our TVs away.

    It's wrong to pick out any social media platform and criticise it. Any form of communication is only as good as the way we use it, and I bet there was some idiot in the year 25000BC complaining that cave paintings were "a menace to society, corrupting our youth and wasting our valuable time"!

  • Lawncare-4u.co.uk May 7, 2014 at 12:36am

    overcommunication ..

  • Jen@A&J Owenwindows&gardens May 7, 2014 at 9:43am

    From a personal point of view I've managed to find friends who I'd lost touch with and make new ones too! I do restrict my time on their though, it can be addictive! It's what you make of it really.

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    Gary RK May 7, 2014 at 9:48am

    I just think of social media/advertising, client type and business type as a huge 3 dimensional grid.

    Somewhere, somehow a certain combination of above will suit a certain "business" in gaining clients. And that combination may well be unique and not applicable to anyone else.

    If it works, who's to say it's wrong ?

    However, I feel of all SM, FB is most likely to be successfull in generating work for close knit, local social & business connections.

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