This is the title of a study from Canada published this week. At least this is true for students, the question is what happens to older people
Does Facebook increase jealousy? The more time college students spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to feel jealous of their romantic partners, which will lead to spending more time on Facebook looking for more information that will fuel the jealousy even more, in a vicious cycle that will turn into addiction. This is according to a study reported in a journal dealing with cyber-psychology - CyberPsychology & Behavior, a journal that acts as a scientific journal for everything, including peer review.
Amy Moyes, Emily Christfides and Serge Desmarais from the University of Golf in Ontario, Canada surveyed young people who are in a romantic relationship and found that those who spent a lot of time on social networking sites such as Facebook, may be exposed to information about their partners, which would make them jealous, and subsequently spend a lot of time More in search of information that will cause the most envy.
The study entitled "More information than you wanted: Does Facebook bring out the monster of jealousy" describes the vortex in which the use of Facebook and feelings of jealousy mix and cause a negative effect on behavior and marital relationships. Some participants in the study described the increased use of Facebook as "addictive". The authors of the study recommend that further studies be conducted to explore this feedback loop and determine whether similar connections between online life and social life and jealousy of their partners also occur in older adults.
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Our whole world is based on jealousy. We always want to be better than others.
And may Allah, the first commenter, take my words away...
A few months ago I saw an ex hugging someone a month after the breakup and I remember it just made my blood boil for a second and it still boils and makes me sick to my stomach every now and then just to remember this moment, even though I have a new relationship !!…. Needless to say, I deleted all her photos from my Facebook (that's why I saw her photo in the first place) and blocked her as well.
What you don't know doesn't hurt.
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The surfer "I am again" is right in that Facebook is indeed an unhealthy and very problematic addiction in that it defies and exposes to jealous spouses the marital history of their partner.
It's a shame that jealousy is such a strong and sometimes violent emotion!
The discussion here completely missed the main claim:
Facebook may create jealousy between spouses, which would not have existed had it not been available to both spouses with information about the life of the other spouse that was unknown to them without Facebook.
If on ICQ/MSN we only saw the couple talking (something that can be easily dealt with by ignoring...), then now it is impossible to avoid seeing their photos from a trip to South America from not many years ago - hugging and going wild and who knows what else with all sorts People they never bothered to tell you…
In short, I agree with the author of the article - FACEBOOK for me is an unhealthy addiction.
There is a solution: close your Facebook account and never return.
It's not just Facebook. And what about MSN and ICQ and the other programs that make my wife sit at the computer instead of next to me?
It's an exaggeration to say that more friends on Facebook means less friends in the real world.
On the other hand sometimes, many friends on Facebook does not indicate many friends in reality because there is a stupid race to confirm as many friends as possible as if it is a measure of something.
Facebook is a bubble!
I don't agree with you, Shlomi, you are a complete exaggeration..
I have a friend with lots and lots of friends on Facebook, a crazy amount...and really he knows lots of people and has lots and lots of friends, and I know more of them..
It depends on this - if social people by nature add people who are already friends in reality then it's fine..
And there are those who add just for the sake of adding and think that it makes people their friends, it's wrong..
But it is quite idiotic to state that those who have many friends on Pace have less in reality ><
And that's even before we talked about the damage to social relationships in favor of virtual relationships.
Do many friends on Facebook = many friends in the real world. I think it's just the opposite
Those who have more virtual friends on Facebook - have fewer real friends in reality
A little basic trust in your partner and the jealousy will calm down.
Nothing will happen if she chats a little with her ex....
The whole world is buzzing from Facebook
And I'm just wondering where the ball games of tomorrow's children have gone?
into the screen?
You don't have to be Freud to understand that when your friend chats about friendships and exes on Facebook, it's not pleasant...
Haha, just today I saw some ex hugging someone in a picture on Facebook and it's been haunting me since noon, even though I have a girlfriend :-|.
I completely agree and it will probably get worse as technology moves forward and privacy moves backwards...