A while since I posted this but the evidence all suggests that using social media can make you feel inadequate by comparing yourself with artificially inflated/enhanced profiles & pictures or number of people who like you.
Most people who use Facebook do so to add positive updates but generally people who use Facebook tend to be more frustrated, angry and lonely.
This might be because positive updates from their “friends” make them feel inadequate.
Now researchers at Ohio University have discovered that people in a bad mood turn to social network sites and look up people less attractive or less successful than themselves rather than those more attractive and more successful.
Given a choice of profiles to look at on a new social networking link called SocialLink participants who had been put in a negative state of mind – by being given poor feedback on a test – spent more time looking at the profiles of people who were less attractive and less successful.
The message is if you’re feeling bad look for someone who’s feeling even worse and regain your emotional superiority.
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