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How does being on social media make you feel?
In a study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, Dr. Wirtz, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, examined how people use three of the largest social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The study boiled social media use down to four key components: feed watching, messaging, posting updates, and reading world news. Checking the main feed was by far the most common activity, with many users not bothering to post or send messages at all.
The study found that the more people used any of these platforms, the worse they felt afterward. Dr. Wirtz said in a news release, “The more respondents had recently used these sites, either in aggregate or individually, the more negative effect they reported when they responded to our randomly-timed surveys over a 10-day period.” He believes that the reason is the passive contact. People look longingly at other people’s lives and feel dissatisfied with their own.
Being active could be the key to healthy social media use. By posting and engaging directly with other people, rather than treating social sites as static feeds to browse, you can experience some of the benefits of in-person interaction. If people form and maintain direct connections, Dr. Wirtz said, “the negative impact of social media use could be reduced — and social network sites could even have the potential to improve our well-being and happiness.”
(Sean Marsala. www.medicaldaily.com, 10.11.2020. Adaptado.)
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