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jealous of your fb friends? don't believe everything you "like"
According to a recent study, Facebook may be making people sad. Realllly sad.
|This gURL’s got serious Facebook drama with her BFF. What should she do?|
Researchers found that people, especially women, assumed their lives were more depressing than their FB friends’ awesome-looking lives. And, as it turns out, people who felt dejected when they compared themselves to their seemingly happy Facebook friends often overestimated just how much fun other people were having.
Does seeing your friends’ profiles or pics ever make you feel sad or jealous? Tell us what you think!
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I hate Facebook, seriously. Half of my friends I had never even met. I was always comparing myself to other girls who were, in my head, were prettier than I. Every friend I had on Facebook seemed to have a great life, at least that’s what their statues were saying. Facebook was right in the middle of every problem that I had at school for the past 3 years. All the fights, drama, hassles, etc, that I had, Facebook was a big contributor to it all.
Now, I have a new Facebook account. I plan on just having people on it who I get along with the best. The best of the best of my friends. Hopefully, this doesn’t cause depression anymore.
I hate Facebook and have tried to delete my account many times but I can't manage to stay away. It's very addicting. I know that people exaggerate their lives and try to make ordinary everyday tasks seems soooo exciting on their status updates. But some days I can't help but compare my life with theirs and feel like I'm not accomplishing as much as they are.
I completely agree. Seeing all my friend's pictures of them and their friends having a ball out on the town and reading status's explaining how much fun their having. Yeah…Definitely depressing.
I could totally see why this could be true. When I go on facebook I see people going to parties, going out to do fun things and I'm stuck at home being broke and doing nothing. But its not just depressing with friends its depressing with guys too. Like I don't want to know what my ex that I still really care for is doing or who he's doing it with, or to even look at his new pictures to see how much cuter he's gotton…So yea facebook can be depressing…