Comments on: Study: Why Facebook is making people sad

By: David Ni

David Ni — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:35:07 +0000

Facebook can make you equally happy if you thought broadcast and ignore most of everything else which is going on around you… :)

By: Justin R. Moen

Justin R. Moen — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:43:27 +0000

“Everyone has a better life than you when you’re in college?!?!” Where in the hell did you go to school? Sounds like you should have left the library long enough to experience the socialization en masse that typifies most peoples tertiary educational experience. Least problematic in this study is the composition of the test group… 425 students is a pretty fair sample and in many ways is an accurate representation of the typical Facebook demographic… and it cost NO money to get them to take the survey (bonus).

By: Donald Wiley Quixote

Donald Wiley Quixote — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:57:11 +0000

Facebook is saddening because it’s so shallow and further reflects the kind of shallowness a media driven market culture exem,plifies.

By: Carlos Butler

Carlos Butler — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:05:53 +0000

Its not facebook, its the stupid shit they do in it.

By: Ankit Das

Ankit Das — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:38:36 +0000

Kind of a gud thought wud be glad

if alows fb fuk too smthng lyk ‘gamer’ movie typ

a section/group only to fuk . Hit the gal u lyk n happy lol

;-)

By: Mike Tijerina

Mike Tijerina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:28:32 +0000

The subjects were all students. Ah, yes, let’s ask 425 highly connected, stressed, drunk, depressed, insecure (jobs) homesick, in-debt and/or horny students if they agree/disagree that “Many of my friends have a better life than me.” Everyone has a better life than you when you’re in college:-) Not a very broad cross-section of the user base, in my mind, and thus a more accurate title should read: “Depressed or not, students still use Facebook.”

By: Play Time

Play Time — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:29:45 +0000

Uh No!

By: Robert Burnham

Robert Burnham — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:17:17 +0000

It’s realizing that people you have known your whole life are incredibly boring and often lack the ability to spell properly. =(

By: Joe Hoyle

Joe Hoyle — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:27:27 +0000

Exactly! I see no evidence that Facebook makes you sad, only heavy users of Facebook are more sad than those not using it lots.

By: Ger Her

Ger Her — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:31:07 +0000

Sad that I didn’t create it!!! $$$

By: Nancy Wyse

Nancy Wyse — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:49:01 +0000

Correlation doesn’t prove cause and effect! But if fb makes you sad you should delete your account.

By: David Ni

David Ni — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:17:23 +0000

Facebook can make you equally happy if you thought broadcast and ignore most of everything else which is going on around you… :)

By: Tim Vimont

Tim Vimont — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:28:18 +0000

True, correlation =/ causation, but if every study had to adhere to what appears to be your criteria for causation, empirical studies would be pointless. From my reading of the study, the explanatory framework for the correlation (i.e. the independent variable) is legitimate and accurate.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:39:25 +0000

They say in real life the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Imagine that, it rings true for online life too. Or imagine if you could control what others see and know about you therefore allowing you to edit your life as you live it. I mean with that in mind we all should be living like rock stars on our profiles.

By: Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:10:25 +0000

so true! sometime back i used to have a main fb account where i do all my stuff, but i felt it was causing more damage than any other thing, so i close it and then created an account just to play or comment in other sites that require fb, i wasn’t total sure why i closed it but this gives me the right idea. Besides fb is more gossip than other thing!

By: Kenny Strawn

Kenny Strawn — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:06:10 +0000

Good thing us Google+ users have Hangouts, so if we're feeling glum all we have to do is start a Hangout and use our live webcam to chat face-to-face with all our contacts as if they were in person. The reason why Facebook users are sad is because there is no way to experience what those people would be like if you talked to them in person.

Thank you, Google, for finally making social networking as much like real-life socialization as possible!

By: Alejandro Arashi

Alejandro Arashi — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:04:40 +0000

I don't agree.

At the most I think it's exactly the opposite.

At the least unhappy people should better exercise their choice in who to be friends with: if happy events in another person's life doesn't make you happy you shouldn't be facebook friends with them.

By: Damon Schmitt

Damon Schmitt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:00:08 +0000

“Sad things make me sad…. happy things make me sad!” Facebook – giving millions of people of both genders perpetual PMS. :o

By: Chinckley6

Chinckley6 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:43:59 +0000

Great article. I totally believe it too. Sometimes being able to track everything your friends are doing isn’t exactly healthy lol