If you found this text in your Facebook timeline, you should exchange it with your friends in interest of your health after reading it. This could be concluded, roughly simplistically, from all studies and against studies that are circulating on question of how damaging benefits of social networks such as Facebook and Co. are.
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Quite damaging, say one (here for example or here or here). Everything is half as wild, or at least not quite as simple, say ors (here for example or here or here) and like to quote American sociologist Charles Cooley. The defendant already 1909 “The strange custom to sit at breakfast table and, instead of chatting with his wife and children, to hold a kind of screen face and to read very last gossip”. At that time it was a technical and social innovation that newspapers were delivered in morning.
It is, of course, necessary to suspect wher regular use of social media has health consequences. Depression, for example. A number of scientists are investigating question (here, for example, or here or here). This is naturally difficult: re are results; The interpretation is difficult; Furr serious research is needed. So far, so self-evident. But it seems to be just as obvious to interpret figure already found out until it fits into one’s own worldview – a deeply human, but not scientific, reaction.
The dispute escalates in pretty regular intervals, usually synchronously with those in which new study results become known. The most recent example is now a particularly droll one: two years ago, American Psychological Association had published a long-term study that shows that passive use of Facebook is bad for well-being: just always scrolling out of tune, can even make depressive.
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Facebook has now dealt with situation quite extensively. On Friday, research director of company, David Ginsberg, and his staff, Moira Burke, posted a blog entry mentioning critical studies. And of course relativising end like those of journal Social Issues and Policy review. It says: “Passive use of social networks leads to social comparisons and envy, which has negative consequences for subjective well-being. In contrast, if active use of platforms of social networks leads to subjective well-being, this is because social capital and feeling of social connectedness arise. “
Also a study in Journal of Computer-Mediated communication, to which Autorenduo refers, states that well-being when using Facebook depends on type of use, i.e. behaviour of user. A study whose author is, by way, Facebook employee Moira Burke.
On Facebook blog she has now written with Ginsberg: “We want Facebook to be a place for meaningful interaction with your friends and family.” Yikes: “Meaningful interaction”? This would probably disqualify three quarters of users. Will Facebook force us to unsubscribe now? Probably not. This is way company is trying to make people, i.e. its customers, point out that it makes sense to be self-active (and not just to read passively, got me, readers?). Hey, Facebook says, not only consumes us, but also posts actively – and makes Facebook even bigger.
Ah, yes. By way, Facebook has used same blogpost to announce new tools for its platform, such as how to turn off contributions from ex-partner or or unpleasant people. Of course, se functions will also serve to mitigate negative consequences of excessive Facebook usage.
