Stopping to connect for a week to the social network would improve his feeling of well-being and his positive thoughts.
Facebook tab, option: logout. Taking off on the social network, not going there for a while, would improve one’s emotional well-being, according to a study conducted by the University of Copenhagen and published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
This would be especially true for users who like to “stalk” (spy on) the profiles of others, without engaging in discussion or any other form of social interaction on the platform, according to this work.
Weaning
To reach this conclusion, the authors gathered 1095 participants (86% female) aged 34 on average, with around 350 Facebook friends and browsing just over an hour a day on the platform.
The participants were divided into two groups: one continued his usual use of Facebook (control group), the other stopped connecting to it. Both groups were interviewed through questionnaires throughout the experiment.
Overall, it shows an improvement in positive feelings and well-being in people who took a break from the social network. As this week of “weaning” progressed, they did indeed obtain a better score on tests to measure these feelings.
Intensive, passive users …
The effect is especially true among “passive” users, therefore, but also among intensive users as well as among those who tend to “envy the lives of others” on the Internet and to “develop irritability” in the face of these. contents, specify the authors. In contrast, for light users, this positive effect was not significant.
The authors conclude that the intensive use of Facebook could have a deleterious effect on mental health and psychological well-being. They recommend regular breaks for all intensive users, “stalkers” or even those in whom these tools generate negative feelings.
The message will be difficult to get across, even harder to apply; researchers are well aware of this. Moreover, during the experiment, 13% of the participants of the second group admitted to having made an illegal trip on the social network …
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