For numerous reasons, Facebook has been proven to plant the ripe ol' seed of jealousy in relationships. I'm sure we've all experienced it, either through our own relationships or friends, because this is by no means a new issue. Don't believe it? Well, there's actually a psychological study to prove it.
The report, published in the CyberPsychology & Behaviour Journal, concluded that there's a "significant association between time spent on Facebook and jealousy-related feelings and behaviours experienced on Facebook." In other words, the more time you spend in this virutal world, the more brawlin' you'll be doing in reality. FACEBOOKED!
Psychologists questioned 308 college students (231 were female) regarding their use of FB. Basically they came up with the following points:
-> the accessiblity of information on FB lead to increased monitoring (or snooping) by 19.1%
-> 16.2% of students explicity linked FB to jealousy, however continued to engage in the social networking site
-> 10.3% of FB users found it difficult to limit the amount of time spent stalking their loved one online
-> 7.4% of respondents felt that the lack of context online lead to misunderstandings
Does this study reveal the detrimental effect social media is having on our relationships? Or does it merely show that technology encourages behaviours that already exist within the individual or relationship. Ah, I'm going to say a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.
Perhaps it's not all bad though. Software engineer Dana Hanna updated his FB status to "married" while still on the alter (no, no, that's still pretty bad). Click here to watch the video.
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