If you spend a lot of time on Facebook, have an unusually high number of friends, and/or find yourself using the site to contrast your life to your friends’, researchers at the University of North Carolina would say you have a “strong emotional connection” to Facebook.
And young women with a strong emotional connection to Facebook, they found, are significantly more likely to compare their bodies to their friends' and to practice risky dieting.
But those who used Facebook, but weren't so attached to the site that they used it to judge their own bodies? They were no more likely to engage in risky dieting than those who didn’t use the site at all.
It’s an interesting study that sheds light on how much we use social media, how we frame it, and the unknown impacts it can have on us. Here’s what you don’t know. |
