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Study: Facebook Fosters Jealousy

Posted 08/10/09 at 12:26:58 PM  by Paul Lilly

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If your significant other refuses to add you as a friend on his/her Facebook page, then maybe you have cause for concern over what personal updates are being posted. But does the social networking site really bring out jealously in romantically involved couples?

A team of Canadian researchers set out to answer that question by asking three hundred and eight undergraduate students to fill out a survey.

"Facebook is a rapidly expanding phenomenon that is changing the nature of social relationships. Anecdotal evidence, including information described in the popular media, suggests that Facebook may be responsible for creating jealously and suspicion in romantic relationships," the researchers stated (PDF).

Participants reported spending an average of just under 39 minutes on Facebook each day and had between 25 and 1,000 Facebook friends. Nearly 75 percent said they were at least somewhat likely to add previous romantic or sexual partners as friends, and 92 percent said their partner was at least somewhat likely to add Facebook friends who they do not know.

"Our results suggest that Facebook may expose an individual to potentially jealously-provoking information about their partner, which creates a feedback loop whereby heightened jealousy leads to increased surveillance of a partner's Facebook page," the researchers concluded. "Persistent surveillance results in further exposer to jealous-provoking information."

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TAGS: Software, facebook, Social Networking, study, romance
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avatarno need for jeolousy

Submitted by Queenof1 on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:37am

online networking sites should be an extension of your offline social life. I don't friend people I don't know IRL. I don't facebook or myspace to meet people. For me, it's a way to keep up with people that I already know. No need for my SO to get jeolous.

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avatarGet a life people... online

Submitted by Dresh on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 3:34am

Get a life people... online social networking is pure bullshit that allows most people to hide behind an online persona and say/comment differently then they would face to face.  Try real life social networking and go to a local pub, if you're not a drinker that's fine order a coke you'd be surprised how friendly your local pub is.

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avatarUmmm...

Submitted by Arokk.Darkkstarr on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 12:11pm

"Jealousy", not "Jealously".

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avatarSlow news day

Submitted by domih2009 on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 11:55am

Researcher found that Facebook increases marshmallow consumption for
women 20-25 who watch Dr Phil re-runs on Tuesday afternoons while
glancing at their walls at the same time.

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avatarSo, not only can I eat

Submitted by I Jedi on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:23am

So, not only can I eat dinner, but I can watch a show go down between a couple on Facebook overtime? Awesome... It's like a reality T.V. show.. Soon they'll make the Reality Facebook show featuring couples who let a social media site destroy their relationships. That would be worth seeing, to be honest. It would highlight the pirvotal sarcasm of just how retarded and irrational human beings are.

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