Apart from the below reasons which the survey found as making people feel jealous and miserable on facebook, I have always told my friends that Facebook allows people to live fairy tale lives and such, they should never feel bad about themselves because of some friends’ photos and messages.
A lot of Facebook users take hundreds of photos and carefully select the flawless ones to upload to their pages. Most people do not upload photos of their bad days but when they get the chance to have a holiday, they will upload several photos of themselves having fun.
If you are a friend who is having a horrible time in life, you may be forced to get jealous when in fact, your friend is just like you. But he/she is just playing on your mind…
People need to realize that, it is hard everywhere and it is hard for everyone. No where is cool. However, majority of people’s Facebook users show they are living the life you see as fairy tale. This can make you hate yourself and circumstance. The truth is that, they hate things as much as you do too, they are just using facebook to cover their sorrow days…
Anyway, read below for more
Facebook can make you feel socially isolated and miserable because seeing friends’ happy pictures triggers feelings of envy, two studies have found.
Academics claim one in three people feel worse after visiting the site and that their ‘general dissatisfaction’ with life had increased.
German researchers from two universities studied 600 people and found that those who browsed without contributing were more likely to feel bad afterwards.
Positive images of friends enjoying holidays, commenting on their happy lives or simply posting pet pictures was enough to trigger feelings of jealousy, experts from Berlin’s Humboldt University and Darmstadt’s Technical University found.
The Facebook test group said what riled them most were happy holiday snaps of ‘Facebook friends’ followed by gushing prose of fabulous lives, great jobs and cracking social diaries.
The academics said people who surfed a lot on such sites were in danger of becoming socially isolated and depressed.
Which poses a conundrum the academics have not yet been able to answer: are lonely people drawn to social networks in a bid to come out of themselves or merely to cement their isolation?
Researchers said those who were most unhappy and dissatisfied tended to be those who did not get involved, just choosing to read posts or click on to photos.
