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[PonderThis]

Good dog, am I starting to sound like Wonky? Oops, as Rosana Rosana Dana used to say, ''Never mind''.

Good dog???

[Leonard]

Good dog, am I starting to sound like Wonky? Oops, as Rosana Rosana Dana used to say, ''Never mind''.

Good dog???

Yes, didn't you know they have been misspelling it for ions.

But this is a thread dedicated to the followers of Facebook, so let us retire.

[SFLiberal]

[SFLiberal]

[SFLiberal]

[Tiamat]

I don't understand. "Recover"? Recover from what? And the Recovery is Twitter? And what is it you could only wish for when you refer to facebook? It's demise? I'm quite confused. The day of the message board has peaked and passed also. Twitter will too.

Facebook Addiction: Low Self-Esteem And Poor Body Image

In case we didn’t quite grasp the vastness of social media’s power over us, two new studies help hammer the point home. Facebook has some decided benefits, but it can also, apparently, mess with our minds, drawing us into dependence and luring us to make unhealthy comparisons between ourselves and others. Though some of the studies’ findings seem almost humorous in their obviousness, others point to a darker phenomenon.

One new study found that the social media monster has – you’ll never see this coming – addictive qualities. This won’t surprise most users, but it’s helpful to have a scientific study to show it. The vast majority (85%) of the 1,000 people polled said they used Facebook as part of their regular routines. About a third said they used Facebook to stay on top of things and two-thirds admitted they used it to kill time. One quarter said they felt “ill at ease” if they can’t log in regularly. Sounds a lot like withdrawal.

More interesting was that women spent about 30% more time on Facebook than men, and they were more likely to post updates about emotions and relationships than men were. The most avid female Facebook users were also more likely to be unhappier and less content with their lives than others.

That Facebook is addicting is not surprising, but the part that’s more revealing, psychologically speaking, is that the more women “used,” the less happy they tended to be. Given the unique relationship that women have with addictive behaviors, this is not something to cast aside.

In fact, another new study found that Facebook may add to the body image issues that people, especially young women and girls, grapple with. Just over half of the study’s 600 participants said that looking at photos on Facebook added to their body-consciousness, and the same number said they compare themselves to others when they view photos or status updates. Just under half said that when looking at Facebook friends’ photos, they wished they had the same body or weight the person pictured.

A third also said they actually felt sad when they compared their own photos to those of their friends, and half said that the Timeline feature actually made it easier to compare changes in their body weight and size across time.

“Facebook is making it easier for people to spend more time and energy criticizing their own bodies and wishing they looked like someone else,” said Dr. Harry Brandt, director of The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt, which conducted the study. “In this age of modern technology and constant access to SmartPhones and the internet, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for people to remove themselves from images and other triggers that promote negative body image, low self-esteem and may ultimately contribute to eating disorders.”

This might suggest that Facebook may be doing what fashion magazines have long been criticized for: offering an avenue for young people to compare themselves to others. The difference here is that many times it’s among friends and acquaintances, rather than models. Earlier work found that the more time young women (12-19) spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to develop an eating disorder, including anorexia, bulimia, and intense dieting. More avid Facebook users were also more likely to have negative feelings about their bodies and physical dissatisfaction.

Since social media isn’t going anywhere, it might be time for us to adjust our relationship to it, and arrive at a better balance.

How’s your relationship with Facebook? Do you find yourself hooked? Do its pros outweigh its cons?

Cut & Pasted from ............. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton...ody-image/

I don't consider myself hooked on FB. I mostly check in for people I know who aren't on this board and aren't in my everyday real life. The rest is just fluff. If I didn't check in for the folks I know, I wouldn't go there at all. It's ability to create contact is basically it's only strength for me. But FB is part of a larger societal symptom is which is facile, shallow identification with....EVERYTHING. But, again, I don't think FB is the cause, but part of the problem. So are cellphones. And reality TV. But, how on earth is Twitter an improvement?

[Scrapper]

I don't understand. "Recover"? Recover from what? And the Recovery is Twitter? And what is it you could only wish for when you refer to facebook? It's demise? I'm quite confused. The day of the message board has peaked and passed also. Twitter will too.

Facebook Addiction: Low Self-Esteem And Poor Body Image

In case we didn’t quite grasp the vastness of social media’s power over us, two new studies help hammer the point home. Facebook has some decided benefits, but it can also, apparently, mess with our minds, drawing us into dependence and luring us to make unhealthy comparisons between ourselves and others. Though some of the studies’ findings seem almost humorous in their obviousness, others point to a darker phenomenon.

One new study found that the social media monster has – you’ll never see this coming – addictive qualities. This won’t surprise most users, but it’s helpful to have a scientific study to show it. The vast majority (85%) of the 1,000 people polled said they used Facebook as part of their regular routines. About a third said they used Facebook to stay on top of things and two-thirds admitted they used it to kill time. One quarter said they felt “ill at ease” if they can’t log in regularly. Sounds a lot like withdrawal.

More interesting was that women spent about 30% more time on Facebook than men, and they were more likely to post updates about emotions and relationships than men were. The most avid female Facebook users were also more likely to be unhappier and less content with their lives than others.

That Facebook is addicting is not surprising, but the part that’s more revealing, psychologically speaking, is that the more women “used,” the less happy they tended to be. Given the unique relationship that women have with addictive behaviors, this is not something to cast aside.

In fact, another new study found that Facebook may add to the body image issues that people, especially young women and girls, grapple with. Just over half of the study’s 600 participants said that looking at photos on Facebook added to their body-consciousness, and the same number said they compare themselves to others when they view photos or status updates. Just under half said that when looking at Facebook friends’ photos, they wished they had the same body or weight the person pictured.

A third also said they actually felt sad when they compared their own photos to those of their friends, and half said that the Timeline feature actually made it easier to compare changes in their body weight and size across time.

“Facebook is making it easier for people to spend more time and energy criticizing their own bodies and wishing they looked like someone else,” said Dr. Harry Brandt, director of The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt, which conducted the study. “In this age of modern technology and constant access to SmartPhones and the internet, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for people to remove themselves from images and other triggers that promote negative body image, low self-esteem and may ultimately contribute to eating disorders.”

This might suggest that Facebook may be doing what fashion magazines have long been criticized for: offering an avenue for young people to compare themselves to others. The difference here is that many times it’s among friends and acquaintances, rather than models. Earlier work found that the more time young women (12-19) spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to develop an eating disorder, including anorexia, bulimia, and intense dieting. More avid Facebook users were also more likely to have negative feelings about their bodies and physical dissatisfaction.

Since social media isn’t going anywhere, it might be time for us to adjust our relationship to it, and arrive at a better balance.

How’s your relationship with Facebook? Do you find yourself hooked? Do its pros outweigh its cons?

Cut & Pasted from ............. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton...ody-image/

I don't consider myself hooked on FB. I mostly check in for people I know who aren't on this board and aren't in my everyday real life. The rest is just fluff. If I didn't check in for the folks I know, I wouldn't go there at all. It's ability to create contact is basically it's only strength for me. But FB is part of a larger societal symptom is which is facile, shallow identification with....EVERYTHING. But, again, I don't think FB is the cause, but part of the problem. So are cellphones. And reality TV. But, how on earth is Twitter an improvement?

It isn't.

[Wonky]

Here is my problem with Facebook and the rest.

There is no real effort to form your own opinions, no real thought process, only the click of a mouse to adopt another's political or spiritual agenda with a cartoon and sidestepping the hard work of actually cultivating your own thoughts which end any chance for an open dialogue.

There are obvious reasons why people try to avoid subjects like politics and religion, it is very personal. And we, as a peole no longer bother ourselves with face to face conversations that allows for challenging and reconsidering uniquely impassioned beliefs and instead let an angry, sub-captioned diatribes beneath photos or graph say it.

So what happens to us, as a society, when we let ourselves think like a Facebook page? Well you get what we have today; a nation run by oligarchs and a people ignorant beyond belief with there faces stuck in an iPod.

So? Feel free to NOT participate in Facebook. Seems pretty simple.

This post was about Facebook loosing 80% of its users in a few years and it is predominantly the youth that is exiting in mass.

Tia asked about ''recovery'' and I tried to explain the addiction part as well as the loss of communicative skills necessary in daily life.

And just for the record, this thread is a perfect example of what has been said against Facebook. Your first response was not from your mind but instead lifted from Facebook, but your second one was in your own words.

Good dog, am I starting to sound like Wonky? Oops, as Rosana Rosana Dana used to say, ''Never mind''.

Leonard, because I agree with your post, and see it as a valid and well stated argument, I am flattered that you say, "God dog (sic) am starting to sound like Wonky".

[Tiamat]

I don't understand. "Recover"? Recover from what? And the Recovery is Twitter? And what is it you could only wish for when you refer to facebook? It's demise? I'm quite confused. The day of the message board has peaked and passed also. Twitter will too.

Facebook Addiction: Low Self-Esteem And Poor Body Image

In case we didn’t quite grasp the vastness of social media’s power over us, two new studies help hammer the point home. Facebook has some decided benefits, but it can also, apparently, mess with our minds, drawing us into dependence and luring us to make unhealthy comparisons between ourselves and others. Though some of the studies’ findings seem almost humorous in their obviousness, others point to a darker phenomenon.

One new study found that the social media monster has – you’ll never see this coming – addictive qualities. This won’t surprise most users, but it’s helpful to have a scientific study to show it. The vast majority (85%) of the 1,000 people polled said they used Facebook as part of their regular routines. About a third said they used Facebook to stay on top of things and two-thirds admitted they used it to kill time. One quarter said they felt “ill at ease” if they can’t log in regularly. Sounds a lot like withdrawal.

More interesting was that women spent about 30% more time on Facebook than men, and they were more likely to post updates about emotions and relationships than men were. The most avid female Facebook users were also more likely to be unhappier and less content with their lives than others.

That Facebook is addicting is not surprising, but the part that’s more revealing, psychologically speaking, is that the more women “used,” the less happy they tended to be. Given the unique relationship that women have with addictive behaviors, this is not something to cast aside.

In fact, another new study found that Facebook may add to the body image issues that people, especially young women and girls, grapple with. Just over half of the study’s 600 participants said that looking at photos on Facebook added to their body-consciousness, and the same number said they compare themselves to others when they view photos or status updates. Just under half said that when looking at Facebook friends’ photos, they wished they had the same body or weight the person pictured.

A third also said they actually felt sad when they compared their own photos to those of their friends, and half said that the Timeline feature actually made it easier to compare changes in their body weight and size across time.

“Facebook is making it easier for people to spend more time and energy criticizing their own bodies and wishing they looked like someone else,” said Dr. Harry Brandt, director of The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt, which conducted the study. “In this age of modern technology and constant access to SmartPhones and the internet, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for people to remove themselves from images and other triggers that promote negative body image, low self-esteem and may ultimately contribute to eating disorders.”

This might suggest that Facebook may be doing what fashion magazines have long been criticized for: offering an avenue for young people to compare themselves to others. The difference here is that many times it’s among friends and acquaintances, rather than models. Earlier work found that the more time young women (12-19) spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to develop an eating disorder, including anorexia, bulimia, and intense dieting. More avid Facebook users were also more likely to have negative feelings about their bodies and physical dissatisfaction.

Since social media isn’t going anywhere, it might be time for us to adjust our relationship to it, and arrive at a better balance.

How’s your relationship with Facebook? Do you find yourself hooked? Do its pros outweigh its cons?

Cut & Pasted from ............. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton...ody-image/

I don't consider myself hooked on FB. I mostly check in for people I know who aren't on this board and aren't in my everyday real life. The rest is just fluff. If I didn't check in for the folks I know, I wouldn't go there at all. It's ability to create contact is basically it's only strength for me. But FB is part of a larger societal symptom is which is facile, shallow identification with....EVERYTHING. But, again, I don't think FB is the cause, but part of the problem. So are cellphones. And reality TV. But, how on earth is Twitter an improvement?

It isn't.

I agree. But it is in the piece Leonard posted. So, I ask him? I realize he C & P's but still, if you put it out there without caveat, people tend to think that's your own opinion also.

[Leonard]

There is a big difference and the reason youth is leaving Facebook for Twitter;

In Tweeting you get more immediate responses and it seems to live somewhere between the worlds of email, instant messaging and blogging. Twitter encourages constant “linking out” to anywhere and, in that respect, is more analogous to a pure search engine; another way to find people and content all over the Net.

While Facebook appeals to social animals and can be very addicting to people who have an insatiable appetite to stay connected with friends and make new acquaintances.

When asked why they love Twitter, users say like “I can ask a question and get an instantaneous response”. They crave the ability to “tap into the collective consciousness” of others on the network, bouncing ideas off others with whom they would otherwise have no means of connecting. Twitter addicts claim it’s like the old fashioned water cooler, where people can gather to shoot the breeze on whatever topic is on their minds. Twitter is like a communications stream you dive into for an invigorating swim.

Facebook addicts prefer the social portal model versus having to log into AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Gmail, Hotmail, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, etc. Instead, Facebook gives them a single alternative to all these applications, with one login and interface to manage their online social interaction needs. This largely explains the explosive growth Facebook continues to experience and why the company reportedly invested $200 million in data center upgrades last year to keep up with demand!

Information gathered from.............. http://www.twitip.com/twitter-versus-facebook/

[Tiamat]

There is a big difference and the reason youth is leaving Facebook for Twitter;

In Tweeting you get more immediate responses and it seems to live somewhere between the worlds of email, instant messaging and blogging. Twitter encourages constant “linking out” to anywhere and, in that respect, is more analogous to a pure search engine; another way to find people and content all over the Net.

While Facebook appeals to social animals and can be very addicting to people who have an insatiable appetite to stay connected with friends and make new acquaintances.

When asked why they love Twitter, users say like “I can ask a question and get an instantaneous response”. They crave the ability to “tap into the collective consciousness” of others on the network, bouncing ideas off others with whom they would otherwise have no means of connecting. Twitter addicts claim it’s like the old fashioned water cooler, where people can gather to shoot the breeze on whatever topic is on their minds. Twitter is like a communications stream you dive into for an invigorating swim.

Facebook addicts prefer the social portal model versus having to log into AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Gmail, Hotmail, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, etc. Instead, Facebook gives them a single alternative to all these applications, with one login and interface to manage their online social interaction needs. This largely explains the explosive growth Facebook continues to experience and why the company reportedly invested $200 million in data center upgrades last year to keep up with demand!

Information gathered from.............. http://www.twitip.com/twitter-versus-facebook/

I guess I don't get it. To me, it's a big " So what?" I mean, have ever really spent much time on Twitter? It's just as shallow, just as facile.

[Scrapper]

[SFLiberal]

[PonderThis]

That's a totally fictional quote, I hope you know.

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[Tiamat]

Seems pretty political in this no politics thread.

[Scrapper]

Seems pretty political in this no politics thread.

My 'Engineering Flow Chart'?

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[Tiamat]

Seems pretty political in this no politics thread.

My 'Engineering Flow Chart'?

not that one.

[Scrapper]