Girls stress more about Facebook updates !!

An Australian survey has found that women were more stressed out than men to keep their Facebook status updates interesting...
An Australian survey has found that women were more stressed out than men to keep their Facebook status updates interesting. Sixty nine per cent women of the 420 Australians interviewed said they felt the pressure to keep their status updated, as opposed to only 39 per cent of men, reports News. The Cenovis Chill Pill survey, conducted by Galaxy research, has suggested that the pressures associated with social media are a large contributor to high stress levels among its users. While 63 per cent believed social media was contributing to the stress levels, over one third (37 per cent) felt under pressure to be in constant contact and 35 per cent said there was an expectation to respond quickly to messages. Over 13 per cent felt stressed while trying to be witty in writing status updates on Facebook. La Trobe University law student Nikkita

Venville said she could relate to the survey's findings. "There's a bit of pressure to have a unique status that people will laugh at and press the 'like' button," said the 24-year-old from Melbourne. Venville said she felt 'out of loop' if she did not check or respond to messges on Facebook regularly.
She said that she was spending so much time on Facebook that she asked her sister to change her password so she could study for her exams.

Popular Facebook users 'feel more stress'

Facebook users with more friends suffer more stress and "neurotic limbo" from feeling they have to continually update and amuse their larger audiences, according to new research.
But the claim has met skepticism from internet psychology experts, who question the methodology of the study. A team at Edinburgh Napier University gathered online survey responses from 175 students about their feelings towards Facebook. Almost three quarters of respondents were women. Dr Kathy Charles, who led the study, said: "We found it was actually those with the most contacts, those who had invested the most time in the site, who were the ones most likely to be stressed. "It's like being a mini news channel about yourself. The more people you have the more you feel there is an audience there. You are almost a mini celebrity and the bigger the audience the more pressure you feel to produce something about yourself." Some 12 per cent of respondents said Facebook makes them feel anxious. They had an average of 117 friends on the site, compared to an average of 75 friends for the rest of the students. Acorss the whole sample, 63 per cent said they put off responding to new friend requests.

"Many also told us they were anxious about withdrawing from the site for fear of missing important social information or offending contacts," said Dr Charles. Eleanor Barlow, an managing consultant specialising in cyberpsychology at IBM, said the claims were interesting, but should not be applied to the wider population on Facebook. "Students often use Facebook in a quite different way to the rest of us," she explained. "They are exploring their identity at that age, including online." Despite the ubiquity of Facebook among students, the Edinburgh Napier study found they often feel it offers only modest or tenuous rewards. "But many also told us they were anxious about withdrawing from the site for fear of missing important social information or offending contacts," said Dr Charles. "Like gambling, Facebook keeps users in a neurotic limbo, not knowing whether they should hang on in there just in case they miss out on something good." In November it was claimed by doctors writing in The Lancet that stress from a Facebook update triggered an athsma attack in a 17-year old girl.

MUCH WORRIED ABOUT FACEBOOK UPDATES

By : MK mworld