Dont Let Facebook Make You Miserable

[SecularMotion]

IT is now official. Scholars have analyzed the data and confirmed what we already knew in our hearts. Social media is making us miserable.

We are all dimly aware that everybody else can’t possibly be as successful, rich, attractive, relaxed, intellectual and joyous as they appear to be on Facebook. Yet we can’t help comparing our inner lives with the curated lives of our friends.

Just how different is the real world from the world on social media? In the real world, The National Enquirer, a weekly, sells nearly three times as many copies as The Atlantic, a monthly, every year. On Facebook, The Atlantic is 45 times more popular.

Americans spend about six times as much of their time cleaning dishes as they do golfing. But there are roughly twice as many tweets reporting golfing as there are tweets reporting doing the dishes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/dont-let-facebook-make-you-miserable.html

[Skittles]

1. a pox on everyone who made that piece of shit site popular

seriously

[democratisphere]

2. Facebook is a real scourge on society.

[Nitram]

3. That's not been my Facebook experience. FB is just a tool. You get out of it what you put into it.

I use Facebook for a variety of different things: keeping up with two sisters, a niece and two nephews who live in different states, keeping up with friends who live all over the world (I grew up overseas and have far-flung friends), sharing political articles and discussions, sharing posts on art, music, comedy and anything else that interests us. As for reporting on what we're doing, my FB friends stick to meaningful stuff and lots of good photos we've taken such as the March for Science, gardening, trips abroad. FB will only make you miserable if you are in competition for "likes" and how many "friends" you can accumulate. In many ways, FB is not very different from DU.