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 Guillaume Castevert... Tweets et interactions avec les utilisateurs.  Guillaume Castevert. Social Envy - Study Finds Facebook Causes Depression And Isolation. BERLIN - Social networks like Facebook make many things easier.

Social Envy - Study Finds Facebook Causes Depression And Isolation

You can find out right away if Alex got the job or not, and you can not only read about Marie’s vacation, but you can also see all those pictures of her on the beach, too. There’s also a downside to this. Researchers have conducted tests that show that people who spend a lot of time scrolling on Facebook are more socially isolated and more frequently depressed than those who do not. The question, of course, poses itself: are lonely people more drawn to social networks – or does constant surfing result in loneliness over time? While it wasn’t able to answer the question conclusively, a joint research study conducted by Berlin’s Humboldt University and the Darmstadt’s Technical University did however reveal that spending time on social networks could lead to negative feelings. The German researchers, led by Dr.

The never-ending “envy spiral” Critiquer (vraiment) Facebook. Facebook est le miroir de nos ambivalences.

Critiquer (vraiment) Facebook

Et il serait sans doute utile d’être plus lucide à l’égard de nos propres pratiques si l’on voulait rendre cohérentes les multiples critiques que nous adressons aux réseaux sociaux de l’Internet. Even Google won't be around for ever, let alone Facebook. Some years ago, when the Google Books project, which aims to digitise all of the world's printed books, was getting under way, the two co-founders of Google were having a meeting with the librarian of one of the universities that had signed up for the plan.

Even Google won't be around for ever, let alone Facebook

At one point in the conversation, the Google boys noticed that their collaborator had suddenly gone rather quiet. One of them asked him what was the matter. "Well", he replied, "I'm wondering what happens to all this stuff when Google no longer exists. " Recounting the conversation to me later, he said: "I've never seen two young people looking so stunned: the idea that Google might not exist one day had never crossed their minds.

" And yet, of course, the librarian was right. Compared with my librarian friend, we have the attention span of newts. At one level, all this proves is that in the technology world one can go from zero to hero is a very short time. Which is where "stickiness" comes in. Guillaume Castevert.  Guillaume Castevert. Thunderclap.