Married couples, beware of Faceboook. It triggers jealousy in your spouse.
The more time you spend surfing this social networking website, the more jealous your partner feels, says a new Canadian study.
The study also finds that the need for popularity drives young people to disclose more personal information on Facebook than they normally would reveal.
In their study, Emily Christofides and Amy Muise of the University of Guelph near Toronto say Facebook use leaves many triggers for jealousy in your partner.
Says lead author Amy Muise,"You check your partner's (Facebook) page and you see a post from someone you don't know that says, 'It was great seeing you last night'.
"Even though it could be something very innocent, it can easily be interpreted another way.''Once triggered, she says, Facebook-fuelled jealously leads your spouse to dig for more information about your chat partners, thus setting in motion a vicious cycle.
If it is not stopped immediately, your relationship may soon go from "married'' to "complicated'' to divorced.
According to the study, though the majority of people (76 per cent) are concerned about privacy and information control, they still disclose a great deal of personal information in online environments.
"They share and show more about themselves than they might in other social settings. We wanted to find out if different psychological factors are involved in that behaviour,'' says co-author Christofides.
This includes information about birthdays, email addresses, hometowns, school and degree major, and intimate photographs, she says.
Christofides says that the nature of the social networking website is a contributing factor as Facebook includes a template where users fill in information - from their name to relationship status to even their religion.
"This creates 'norms' regarding what specific information to disclose based on what others have disclosed,'' she says.
As a result, people may choose to leave out revealing information, she adds.
"The need for popularity was (also) found to be a significant predictor of information disclosure," adds lead author Amy Muise. Thus information disclosure becomes the key factor in assessing one's popularity on Facebook.
"What others share and say about you is also a part of Facebook. The people who are the most popular are those whose online identity is actively participated in by others. So the more you share, the more others respond,''says the study.
Thus, popularity and disclosure become inextricably linked, the researchers say.
"People with a high need for popularity may indeed care about their privacy, but they may not be willing to sacrifice their popularity by implementing privacy controls,'' according to Christofides.
As part of their study, the two researchers surveyed 343 Facebook users, all university students between the ages of 17 and 24.
Facebook, which has over 200 million users worldwide, is also the most popular networking website in Canada. The study has been published in the journal CyberPsychology and Behaviour
Monday, August 24, 2009
Facebook Fuels jealousy in relationships
Monday, August 3, 2009
Facebook, MySpace encouraging Suicide'
The Catholic Church in England has warned that websites such as Facebook and MySpace are pushing teenagers to view friendship as a "commodity" and ultimately leading them to commit suicide.
Archbishop Nichols, who is the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, blamed social network sites for leaving children with impoverished friendships. He stressed that the internet and mobile phones were "dehumanising" community life and that relationships had been weakened by the decline in face-to-face meetings.
"I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community," the Archbishop of Westminster was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph on Sunday.
Underlining that he was "wary" about Facebook and MySpace, the top bishop warned that the sites are contributing to a trend for teenagers to put too much importance on the number of friends they have and that this can ultimately lead to suicide.
The top bishop also raised concerns about the rise of individualism. He described footballers who break their contracts to move to other clubs for bigger salaries as "mercenaries" and said moves to loosen laws on assisted suicide were particularly worrying.
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Sunday, June 7, 2009
How to link FB to Gmail And Yahoo!?
If you are a user of Facebook and also have an account on Google (e.g. Gmail) or Yahoo!, there’s good news for you. You can now link your Google account as well as your Yahoo! ID with Facebook. The advantage is that if you are signed into any of these services, you’ll automatically be logged into your Facebook account as well.
How it works
For example, if you are writing an email in Gmail or working on a spreadsheet in Google Docs, you can open the Facebook website in another browser tab and it won’t show you the sign-in screen anymore as it can use the login information from the Google Account where you are already logged in.
To set up this association between Facebook and your Yahoo!/Google accounts, just open the Facebook site and go to Settings > Accounts Settings. Now click the “Add a new linked account” in the drop-down and link all your accounts one by one.
You can link Google, Yahoo!, MySpace and OpenID with your Facebook account.
