What happens to people when they are a week refuse Facebook
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Hundreds of avid Facebook users broke with your favorite social network for the whole week. And, as it turned out, they were right. All the advantages of such a separation, you will learn from this article.
Social Networking - an excellent source of incessant news. A constant stream of edited lives that distorts our perception of reality.
So believe in The Happiness Research Institute, a research organization in Denmark, where he studied social components of a happy life, its causes and consequences. Scientists confirm the words of his own experiment on voluntary renunciation from Facebook about 500 of their fellow citizens.
experiment Progress
Initially, members of the Institute amounted to a generalized image of 1095 participants in the project from 16 to 76 years. It turned out that 94% of the volunteers every day look into a social network, 86% check the tape frequently or constantly, 78% spend on it 30 minutes or more, 61% prefer to share with friends their own positive traits, 69% post photos of interesting places where they visited.
In addition, each person to assess their current life in several ways. Subjects randomly divided into two groups, one of which has continued to enter the Facebook in the usual way, and the other tied to the social sphere for seven days.
The result of the experiment
A week later, "renegades" reported significantly greater satisfaction with their lives. They were more than happy, less sad and felt depressed, less anxious and angry, often to enjoy life and have confidence in their abilities. Moreover, the break forced them to actively communicate with others and reduced difficulty with concentration. People have noticed that they have become a part of mobile life and stop wasting time.
Detailed classifications listed in the public report. But we figure percentages yes? Emotional responses of the participants will be much more interesting.
The opinion of the participants
26-year-old Chen Stein (Stine Chen) confessed that at first it was very tight: «Facebook - a huge part of my life. All youth culture and parties anyway spin out there. "
Breaking no less experienced 35-year-old Sophie Anne Dorn (Sophie Anne Dornoy): «Every day more before get out of bed, I opened up Facebook on your phone to simply check what interesting happened at night".
Young people removed from Facebook and smart phones blocked the site on your computer to save a lot of temptation.
"A few days later, I noticed that finish your to-do list faster than I do it's usually because I spend my time more productively - Sophie said. - I felt something like the tranquility of the fact that I did not walk into Facebook ». She noted that it was the longer communicate with his family and friends on the phone. "Cool to feel that the world is not to fixate on Facebook. Users are still able to contact you if the need arises. "
"I became greater contact with their neighbors in the apartment instead of having to constantly monitor Facebook tape" - succinctly said Chen.
conclusion
Denmark is in third place on the level of happiness among all countries of the world. That is why the study of The Happiness Research Institute sounds much more convincing among their own kind and that is why I would like for him to watch and on. The benefit of scientists do not think to stop and plan to evaluate the effect of longer failures. In particular, are gaining a one-year volunteer sabbatikal.
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