There is no doubt that social networks like Facebook become addictions because of the feelings they generate. The unfortunate thing is that it appears now proven that they make us feel bad, as explained in this serious Harvard Business Review paper ‘A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel‘.
The study was using statistics and does not explain what could be the probable cause of this conclusion. However personally I have a suspect, described in our post ‘Why Who We Are Is Not What We Post‘: what we see from other people on social networks is much more positive than real life (whereas in real life interaction, we get the full version or at least something closer thanks to the entire context).
Definite conclusion: keep those real life interactions running so that we do not believe all what our online network tells us… and let’s keep our positivity!
