The Influence Of Social Media On Daily Life

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Since the mid 2000’s social media has gained an increasing influence on our lives. According to data by GlobalWebIndex, who polled 170.000 internet users about their use of social media, the average time spend on social media was 1.72 hours every day in 2014. In 2013 this was 1.66 hour.
All this time spent on social media must influence our daily life and the way we communicate with other people, but how? Do we have more contact with our friends and relatives. Or is this contact just superficially “liking” and “following” each other’s statuses. And as a sequel to that question has social media made us more socially involved, or are we just creating an invisible antisocial and lonely bubble around us while chatting on our smartphones.
Kross et al. did a research about how Facebook influences our subjective well-being. With now over 936 million daily Facebook users, Facebook is the biggest social media website. They tried to examine the influence of Facebook on the next two parts of subjective well-being: how people feel moment-to-moment, measured five times a day. And how content they are with their life, measured at these same five moments a day. They found that Facebook has a negative influence on both of these variables. If people used Facebook more at a moment in time, they felt worse at the next measuring moment. …show more content…

This way you can get a very one sided perception on other peoples life. This can make people who already have a low self-esteem feel worse about their lives. Seeing all these people who seem to have a perfect happy life. Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge found in their research that people who spend more time on Facebook agreed more on that other people are happier than they are, have a better life than they have and agreed less on the question if life was fair than people who use Facebook

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