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A new study has found that the more time people spend on Facebook,
the more anxious they become, writes Jenny McCartney.
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Not so long ago, it was thought of as rather exotic to be on Facebook, and perhaps a little show-offy. Today, if you don’t have an account, you are seen as a hopeless oddity, a bit like one of those gloomy, refined children at school whose parents wouldn’t let them have a television in the house in case it interfered with their piano practice.
I have so far kept Facebook at bay, and now the researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have proved me right, by discovering that it makes students stressed. Indeed, the more time people spent on Facebook, the more anxious they became: the guilt of turning down a friend request, or of not properly managing the ones they already had, began to oppress them. Then there was the ghastly pressure to be “entertaining”, and the insidious soul-worm of “friend envy” in response to those who seemed to be having a more fabulous, popular time on the site.
In defence of Facebook, its users are often prone to quote its benefits as a means of “keeping in touch”. Yet what is so wonderful about “keeping in touch” anyway, if it means endlessly providing tiny updates on the dull minutiae of one’s life? It is far better, surely, to have a short – or even long – period of benign mutual neglect, before effecting a joyous reconciliation in person. Like any other fortifying spirit, friendship often benefits from a period of distillation.
source:telegraph.co.uk