Study Reveals Facebook Causes Anxiety

so people who would try to keep alot of friends and be popular have anxiety... is this news? they are the same people who used to keep thier little phoen books of anybody they ever met and try to write letters/emails and call poeple on a monthly basis schedule dto catch up... i use facebook and accociate no anxiety there, if you don't liek somethign i post you're free to unfriend me has always been my sance

"Stressed" is just a sexier way of saying "cool".

What we need is a social website that would cause anti-anxiety to balance it out. Maybe I should go patent this...

That's why I have facebook blocked in my router (so no device can access it not even the iPod). I have 2 kids and one is a 13yr old girl. I Have kept it blocked since day one so they don't know what they are missing. When there friends come over, they think I'm crazy. Well I guess not, I believe it to be a social nightmare for teenagers. And I have texting blocked also. My Wife just loves me, hehe.

I read this and i was saying that is me. I dont know why but i have always felt anxiety from using facebook. After a while I found im more happy not using it or just occassionaly using it. ie once or twice a week. Much better to live in the real world then the facebook one.

I would guess Drama from other people.

I think he is being a good dad. I don't agree that Facebook causes anxiety, but it does for sure cause waste of time and unproductivity.

Classic misplacement of cause and effect. If a significant number of people in a hospital are stressed out, does that mean that hospitals are the cause of their stress? Or (more likely) did they go there in the first place because of some other problem which is causing the stress.

wow this is pretty unusual


but to be honest, after i quit facebook, i felt a lot better about stuff. like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. haven't been on in two months, love it.

i still find it weird how people take facebook seriously. anytime i mess around with the privacy settings on my profile my GF calls me the second after the changes take effect

I've never understood the fascination of Facebook. Do people really enjoy giving all their personal information out to a company to make money off of them? Only to have that info sold to marketeers who then spam advertisements to said people?

Call me crazy, but that's just not my thing.

When people, jaws dropped, heads tilted, ask me why I don't have Facebook, I usually reply something akin to "I've been on the internet too much." or some other vague answer. The real reason is more complex, and be summed up by main points

Security: knowledge is power. Know thy enemy. With no FB comes a reduced risk of someone finding potentially dangerous information. There are people who can find you regardless, but FB in essence brings stalking to the masses.

Friendships: My true friends contact me because they care about our relationship. FB creates false pretenses by allowing the extreme ease of communication. I.E. a true blue is someone who occasionally calls just for a good chat. Someone who writes on your wall gets a big question mark for how much they care about the relationship.

Top 8 drama: Not exactly Myspace, but FB drama through invites, rejections, and pretty much everything else possible. Not interested. Thanks.

I understand why most people use it, and I don't blame them too much; I just blame them for creating pressure on others to join. See Randy Marsh on South Park.

Their stats arent statistically relevant... they surveyed a mere 200 students, which is what percentage of facebook users? Not to mention they surveyed people from a tiny little whole in the wall school where most people are probably socially awkward to begin with and thus account for the staggering numbers of anxiety. There's a reason people go to small colleges, and its not so they can engulf themselves with friends...

I somewhat felt this when I was still on facebook. Sure, I only had what, 150 friends, but I only really talked to 4-5 on a regular basis, and maybe a further 10-15 on an occasional basis.

When I deleted my facebook, I told my friends that if they want to contact me, SMS or call me. Simple and clear.

what about subscription to lots of porn sites?

Seems like there could be a lot of anxiety from no response. Like "no one loves me" because little activity can bring feelings of rejection that otherwise would not be there. In the real world.
Social addiction is the addiction to constant affirmation maybe?

I used to be on FB until recently. Socially, I'm fine - I've lived in numerous countries and been to university, so I know how to interact with people face to face. I was really happy with using FB and adding various people I met, especially that it allowed me to keep in contact with those abroad, however I read this title somewhere today and it completely struck a chord with me. This past year has brought with it a lot of changes and my life is not where I want it to be, so I can understand that those who are slightly insecure or unhappy will have issues with FB - I, personally, remember feeling this weight going off my shoulders as soon as I clicked the 'deactivate' button - though I feel safe in knowing that my account is there when I want to access it again. This won't be for a long time, all I'm really concerned about it photographs?! Twitter is the only social network I am on now and as a Graphic Design student, I find it's much more useful for my career - it's more efficient at informing me of the news than any other website and it's not based about what is going on personally in other people's lives (unless we're talking celebs) FB is good for keeping in contact, but I do agree with this article about the effect it can have on people!

Zero anxiety, because I refuse to be on it.

I USED TO BE ON FACEBOOK ALL THE TIME....& AFTER i HAD 2 KIDS....FACEBOOK ANXIETY KICKED IN....I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY 1. THERES SO MUCH PRESSURE & I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE IS TRYING TO BE SOMEONE THeir NOT. IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING ATTENTION & LOOKING COOL & SOUNDING FUNNY. My sister talks about nothing but facebook & whether she should post something & who she hopes doesn't see it & who is mad at her for something she said.....it's just sad!! PEOPLE GET A LIFE!!
WHY DO I CARE WHAT EVERYONE IS DOING EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY..."I'm going grocery shopping now, hope I don't spend too much"..."I'm doing laundry" "I'm gettin drunk tonight"
It's exhausting!!!
I'm cancelling my page as soon as I can put my anxiety to the side & get the balls to actually go on facebook to cancel!! haha

Just deleted my account today for this reason. A big YES. It definitely does induce stress and anxiety far easier than in the real world.
It is HIGHLY addictive too. You find yourself checking emails every half hour in case you miss someone else’s message or post. Often you would not know this person even if you ran into him or her in the street. Wasted hours fly by. People stay up until all hours of the night, typing things furiously that will only be forgotten a few minutes or hours later and inevitably vanish forever into the archives of cyberspace. Typed scribble that achieves nothing or very little in the real world.
So many users abuse other users and often the abuse is emotional and personal. Then there are the friend requests. Someone from high school who you didn’t really like that much… some guy who wants to be your friend yet he lists “Satan Worship” and “Broadway Show Tunes” as his Interests. Relatives, parents, or siblings also request you, and this induces paranoia. Do they just want to spy on you? Should I accept or not accept? You finally decide not to, then guilt sets in. Others who you did accept become total pains and you don’t know how to get rid of them without hurting their feelings, so you end up just ignoring them. This only makes you feel more guilty.
The stress and anxiety eventually leads to depression, especially when you think someone is your so-called virtual friend (or virtual friend of a virtual friend) and they suddenly turn on you and attack your comments over something that is actually rather trivial. Or they Unfriend you over some remark that you thought was harmless. They block you too, so youo have no way of contacting them again to apologize or resolve the misunderstanding amicably.
It becomes a weird little unsettling world of manicured profiles, carefully worded status’s and newsfeeds.
Now Facebook has added Timelines, which have created more frustration in users, leading to more stress and anxiety.
My advice, if you start to feel stressed on there, even in the slightest, delete your account immediately and go outside. Meet real people in real situations. Walk to a friend’s or relative’s place in the sunshine and fresh air. Go see a relaxing movie. Smell a flower in the garden, in fact do some gardening. Watch a butterfly, or a bird take straw into a tree to build a nest. Marvel at life away from your computer screen. Pick up the phone and call someone who you actually do know.
Resist the urge to go back online to post just one more cool or smart or irrelevant comment. You will thank yourself in the long run if you kick the habit for good.