Studies suggest that browsing Facebook can make you unhappy, says Justin Mullins. Why might that be?
a recent research conducted
by the poet and
playwright TS Eliothas suggested that the constant use of social media
like Facebook and Twitter can negatively affect the happiness of users.
this was contrary to earlier submissions by a cross section of
commentators that say, "the greatest means of communication ever
developed by the mind of man” while others pointed to its potential to
revolutionise news, entertainment and education. But the poet and
playwright TS Eliot had a different take. “It is a medium of
entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same
joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome,” he wrote.before this,
Eliot
and the others were writing about television in the early 1960s. But
fast forward 50 years and you could be forgiven for thinking that their
comments apply equally well to the internet, and online social networks.according to him, chief among these is Facebook, the social network that celebrates its 10th birthday this week. Its statistics are astounding. In just one decade, it has signed up some 1.3 billion people, half of whom log in on any given day and spend an average of 18 minutes per visit. Facebook connects families across continents, friends across the years and people around the world.
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