Telegraph.co.uk announced that a study revealed recently that a longer use of Facebook makes the people to be more anxious and irritated by the world that surrounds them. In fact, it is said that the more time you spend on Facebook, the more anxious you will be.
If you don’t have a Facebook account these days, you are seen as an oddity, a person that is without hope and which seems a bit with Harry Potter’s parents, the muggles. Remember them? The researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have discovered that the students which spend a great deal of time on Facebook are more irritated than the others who don’t. It seems that when you have too many friends, you feel that you must read everything they say or you feel that if you are not connected to all of them, they will get upset on you and you will not be the same friends as ever. Also, a feeling of guilt may come when you reject someone’s friendship request. This is why probably the guys from Facebook invented the “Not Now” option.
The user becomes more and more opressed by the friends that he has on this social network and he will start to lose the nights in order to catch up to their stories. So, by day at work or at school and by night on Facebook. This is not a normal life. This is the reason for those students to become more irritated. If you have many friends on Facebook, you can enter the network once a day or once a week, it doesn’t matter and you will see their latest updates. If you don’t check all of their updates, this doesn’t mean that you are not his friend anymore. If a person updates his status for 60 times a day, in my opinion is a sick person, who doesn’t know anything else to do than to stay on Facebook. These people should get treated.
A normal person stays less than half an hour on Facebook. Or they open the page and leave the page opened, even though they attend to other things. This doesn’t mean that if the Facebook page is still opened, they are still on that page. You know that Mozilla Firefox allows you to have more pages opened at once. So, you can be on Google and still have the Facebook account page opened.
The people that protect this social network say that it is great for communicating with others and keeping in touch. But come on, do you really need to know that Sarah is now at the mall, Sarah is in blue right now, that she met another guy, she is with him at a restaurant, she is at the theater? Only if you are obsessed with her. A normal person should not update his or her profile everytime she does something which is not extraordinary for his or her lifetsyle. You might end up writing on Facebook: “Oh, I just took a breath of air”, in the conditions you breath normally and you have no health problem. Or: “Right now I am standing”, “I am watching the TV”, “I listen to the radio”. Be reasonable, do you really think that we are interested in this?
