Social Media Stress Can Lead To Social Media Addiction, Study Finds (sciencedaily.com) 17
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceDaily: Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Instagram are known to cause stress in users, known as technostress from social media. However, when faced with such stress, instead of switching off or using them less, people are moving from one aspect of the social media platforms to another -- escaping the causes of their stress without leaving the medium on which it originated. Research into the habits of 444 Facebook users revealed they would switch between activities such as chatting to friends, scanning news feeds and posting updates as each began to cause stress. This leads to an increased likelihood of technology addiction, as they use the various elements of the platform over a greater timespan. Researchers from Lancaster University, the University of Bamberg and Friedrich-Alexander Univeristat Erlangen-Nurnberg, writing in Information Systems Journal, found that users were seeking distraction and diversion within the Facebook platform as a coping mechanism for stress caused by the same platform, rather than switching off and undertaking a different activity. Professor Sven Laumer said: "We found that those users who had a greater social media habit- needed less effort to find another aspect of the platforms, and were thus more likely to stay within the SNS rather than switch off when they needed to divert themselves. The stronger the user's SNS habit, the higher the likelihood they would keep using it as a means of diversion as a coping behavior in response to stressors, and possibly develop addiction to the SNS."
"Users go to different areas of the platform which they see as being separate and that they use in different ways. With Facebook, there are features that take you into different worlds within the same platform. You can be in many different places all from the same application, for example following friends' activities, posting pictures about daily activities, switching to a chat feature or playing games."
The study has been published in the Information Systems Journal.
"Users go to different areas of the platform which they see as being separate and that they use in different ways. With Facebook, there are features that take you into different worlds within the same platform. You can be in many different places all from the same application, for example following friends' activities, posting pictures about daily activities, switching to a chat feature or playing games."
The study has been published in the Information Systems Journal.
Unfortunately (Score:3)
Social Media disease is not self-limiting. Except for those unfortunately relatively few who walk in front of busses or off cliffs and dies while playing on their phone.
And that is tragic.
In order for such behaviour to be properly self-limiting it must result in the cleansing of the gene pool of the defect leading to such behaviour -- death must occur before breeding age. As a society we should be doing everything we can to promote the health of the gene pool by encouraging susceptible defectives to use Social Media as much as possible at as early an age as possible, especially while they are "out and about" and most vulnerable to forming part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
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I am concerned that the above post is not modded sarcastic.
Is this new? (Score:3)
This sounds like Facebook is what Compuserv was years ago.
slashdot (Score:2)
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> Does slashdot not count as social media
Yes, usenet, /., and reddit were all social media before they got filled with hipsters and intellectual masturbation debates.
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Development of communication technology has allowed mankind to spiritually progress faster (*) then any other technology.
(*) The jury is still out if the direction is upwards or downwards. :-/
Stressful conversations lead to talking addiction (Score:3)
Lets see if this makes sense : People who find a conversation stressful, go talk with someone else, rather than stop talking completely and go read books or exercise in silence. Headline "Stressful conversations lead to talking addiction".
Full disclosure, I am not a FB fan, never had a FB account not plan to. Maybe that's why I don't get the logic of this headline?
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That average people have keep returning to for well understood anthropological reasons?
The ads and tracking is just a lucky coincidence of the tech?
Scientific method (Score:2)
It's great to study these question and get actual data rather than just assume that the obvious conclusion is necessarily true, but this sound like the same kind of viscious cycle that occurs in other addictions.
And it might be good to talk about vices, which are not (necessarily) addictive in the medical sense but can have the same dysfunctional feedbacks.
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Stress (Score:2)
I can exercise some control my stress I get from work and real life. When it comes to the internet, there is so much bullshit it become really hard work resisting taking the piss out of the idiots.
https://xkcd.com/386/ [xkcd.com]
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Stress is a natural reaction to the intellect overriding the desire to choke the living shit out of someone who really needs it.
Is the Pope a Catholic? (Score:2)
Doh!
IMHO, the only way to get rid of Social Media Stress is to not use it for a month. Going cold turkey and by the time you have recovered you will realise just how much of your life you have wasted with Social Media.
I went off to Northern Siberia for 8 weeks five years ago. The only internet/phone we had was a Sat Phone. After a week or so, I realised that I didn't miss it one bit. When I came back, I just deleted everything I could and forgot about it.
There are 2 places (Score:2)
for example following friends' activities, posting pictures about daily activities,
These are basically the same thing. You can either be in the public aspect of it, walls/feeds/etc or the private. IM/DM/chat etc.