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Study Finds Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A study at UC Irvine has taken a reverse approach to the customary interest in the relationship between technology and tiredness, finding that people who make themselves tired through excessive use of social media such as Facebook are considerably more likely to continue compulsive use of it and deepen their exhaustion. Lead researcher Gloria Mark says "If you're being distracted, what do you do? You go to Facebook. It's lightweight, it's easy, and you're tired."
It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
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Study Finds Compulsive Facebook Usage Increases Sleep Deprivation
...must not have been part of the study. It takes a lot more than sleep deprivation to force me to use facebook!
Not ever, I mean, I got at least 3 hours...uhh 2 hours of...okay 1 hour of sleep last night. I'm good. I'll just read through a few more stories...
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Facebook Usage lowers IQ. People become so stupid they don't know they need to sleep.
I don't know what teams whether it be Boston Broncos or Portland Panthers to place bets on the football pool so I'll squandor the day on Facebook.
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Maybe it's not "Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage", but "Compulsive Facebook Usage Increases Sleep Deprivation ".
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Compulsive behavior of any sort only exists in pre existing conditions of abnormal psychology, so this research should not be applied to regular folks OR advertised as being applicable to normal sane individuals. I mention this because many children have had their computer hobbies curtailed by parents because of a sadistic misapplication of psychopathy research, misapplied by media companies and simpleton politicians.
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"There seems to be a causal relationship between impaired sleep and some of the psychiatric symptomatology and disorders that we're seeing," says Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in this study. He cites research linking sleep apnea, in which breathing is disrupted, to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the evidence of a connection between depression and insomnia as examples. "It might be that those medial frontal regions tell the rest of the brain, 'You can chill,'" he says. "Those circuits become exhausted or altered after a lack of sleep."
I have to say, I find these two things indicative of the posts you see on Facebook
Does sleep deprivation also create compulsive Slashdot usage? Asking for, umm, a friend.
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I sleep 4 hours on a regular basis. I don't you Facebook. Does that make me an outlier in the context of this study? I think not.
I sleep 4 hours on a regular basis. I don't use Facebook. Does that make me an outlier in the context of this study? I think not.
Whats Facebook?
But they can't.
Even the article doesn't use the word causation. It only uses the word correlation. The article gets it right, but the slashdot title and summary both get it wrong.
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And, like most addictions, it is a self-reinforcing feedback loop that ultimately ends in an unhappy place.
Much as I hate Facebook, I strongly doubt this is FB-specific. I've experienced the same thing on other sites - YouTube and Slashdot to name just two. I suspect that any 'chewing gum for the eyes' kind of activity is the same, especially when it's passive absorption of infotainment provided by a blue-weighted light source such as the typical computer monitor.
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I pretty much think my wife has this behavior. She is obsessive compulsive about Facebook. I think it goes with people who have to be in everyone's business and know what's going on. I guess i'm the opposite, I could care less about what's going on and don't care to journal everything I do in my own life. I also sleep well and my wife can't seem to get a good nights sleep so there's that too. Facebook to me is just like alcohol to a alcoholic. Its just a means to a satisfaction for people. Some people can handle alcohol just fine as with most people and social sites. But some simply cannot.
Says the guy posting to slashdot at 5:55am on a sunday. :)
I am sleepy and tired... Before I go to sleep, let me share it with my friends on social media. Let me wait and see what they think before I go to bed...