Study Finds Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage (thestack.com) 50
An anonymous reader writes: A study at UC Irvine has taken a reverse approach to the customary interest in the relationship between technology and tiredness, finding that people who make themselves tired through excessive use of social media such as Facebook are considerably more likely to continue compulsive use of it and deepen their exhaustion. Lead researcher Gloria Mark says "If you're being distracted, what do you do? You go to Facebook. It's lightweight, it's easy, and you're tired."
In other words (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Re:In other words (Score:5, Informative)
Re:In other words (Score:5, Funny)
It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
You actually just described the human brain...
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It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Yeah, the research is.
TFA says they did not establish a cause-effect relationship.
Typo, should have read.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Study finds compulsive use of methamphetamine leads to sleep deprivation
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But think about the weight loss benefits!
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Study Finds Compulsive Exposure To Sleep Deprivation Increases Sleep Deprivation
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Blue light has a dark side [harvard.edu]
Typo, should have read... (Score:1)
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facebook attracts low iq like flies to shit.
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I suspect that any site, with sufficient content/activities, can be used in lieu of Facebook. Hell, one could say that the internet could be used instead of just narrowing it down to one site.
As it is 0400 and I'm still awake. I do not even have a Facebook account.
Slashdot users (Score:3)
...must not have been part of the study. It takes a lot more than sleep deprivation to force me to use facebook!
Slashdotters don't do this (Score:3)
Not ever, I mean, I got at least 3 hours...uhh 2 hours of...okay 1 hour of sleep last night. I'm good. I'll just read through a few more stories...
They must have studied one person (Score:2)
My sister.
Don't follow SB so might as well do FB (Score:2)
No, that's backwards (Score:3)
Maybe it's not "Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage", but "Compulsive Facebook Usage Increases Sleep Deprivation ".
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Sleep deprivation also causes insanity (Score:3)
http://www.scientificamerican.... [scientificamerican.com]
"There seems to be a causal relationship between impaired sleep and some of the psychiatric symptomatology and disorders that we're seeing," says Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in this study. He cites research linking sleep apnea, in which breathing is disrupted, to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the evidence of a connection between depression and insomnia as examples. "It might be that those medial frontal regions tell the rest of the brain, 'You can chill,'" he says. "Those circuits become exhausted or altered after a lack of sleep."
I have to say, I find these two things indicative of the posts you see on Facebook
Just Facebook? (Score:2)
I sleep 4 hours (Score:1)
I sleep 4 hours on a regular basis (Score:1)
what? (Score:1)
Re:what? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess, it is when you sleep at the desk, face down on a book.
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I pretty much think my wife has this behavior. She is obsessive compulsive about Facebook. I think it goes with people who have to be in everyone's business and know what's going on. I guess i'm the opposite, I could care less about what's going on and don't care to journal everything I do in my own life. I also sleep well and my wife can't seem to get a good nights sleep so there's that too. Facebook to me is just like alcohol to a alcoholic. Its just a means to a satisfaction for people. Some people can handle alcohol just fine as with most people and social sites. But some simply cannot.
Says the guy posting to slashdot at 5:55am on a sunday. :)
Everyone wants to quit (Score:1)
Correlation is not Causation (Score:2)
Even the article doesn't use the word causation. It only uses the word correlation. The article gets it right, but the slashdot title and summary both get it wrong.
Stop using Facebook (Score:1)
You're hurting the World.
It is called "facebook addiction" (Score:2)
Facebook only? (Score:2)
Much as I hate Facebook, I strongly doubt this is FB-specific. I've experienced the same thing on other sites - YouTube and Slashdot to name just two. I suspect that any 'chewing gum for the eyes' kind of activity is the same, especially when it's passive absorption of infotainment provided by a blue-weighted light source such as the typical computer monitor.
I am sleepy and tired... (Score:1)
I am sleepy and tired... Before I go to sleep, let me share it with my friends on social media. Let me wait and see what they think before I go to bed...