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What makes Facebook "addictive mental candy" other than you not personally liking it? I know lots of people who feel they get and have got tremendous practical
by repolfx 8y ago
What makes Facebook "addictive mental candy" other than you not personally liking it?
I know lots of people who feel they get and have got tremendous practical benefit from Facebook. It isn't "addictive" unless you use that term to mean anything some people make that other people enjoy.
- nrook 8y agoHere's a study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28093386 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28093386 "Our results showed that overall, the use of Facebook was negatively associated with well-being." Naturally, even if this study is accurate it isn't definitive; the causation could go in the other direction, that the unhappy use Facebook more often than the contented. But it's still quite suggestive. I saw this study referenced from this article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17144748/case-against-facebook https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17144748/c...