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Study Finds Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on from the does-not-apply-to-slashdot-don't-worry dept.

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."

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  1. In other words by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.

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    1. Re:In other words by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Facebook is mind crack for fools. https://scholar.google.com/sch...

    2. Re:In other words by zifn4b · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.

      You actually just described the human brain...

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  2. Typo, should have read.. by JeremyWH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Study Finds Compulsive Facebook Usage Increases Sleep Deprivation

  3. Slashdot users by Tony+Isaac · · Score: 2

    ...must not have been part of the study. It takes a lot more than sleep deprivation to force me to use facebook!

  4. Slashdotters don't do this by ndogg · · Score: 2

    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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  5. No, that's backwards by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's not "Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage", but "Compulsive Facebook Usage Increases Sleep Deprivation ".

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  6. Sleep deprivation also causes insanity by Crashmarik · · Score: 2

    http://www.scientificamerican....

    "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

  7. Re:what? by someone1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess, it is when you sleep at the desk, face down on a book.

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