Facebook Tests Suicide Help With New “Help Centre” After the overwhelming number of suicide notes and videos left on Facebook, the company has taken a proactive approach to identifying and helping depressed users.
Facebook has partnered up with Samaritans, a 24-hour charity that provides emotional support and guidance for those contemplating suicide, to create Facebook’s first Help Centre, a confidential, nonjudgmental support system open to talking to people about their problems. The Help Centre is comprised of 18,500 volunteers who have responded to more than five million phone calls from users feeling depressed. According to ZD Net, “the organization is encouraging users to Like their Facebook Page where they can find updates on the charity’s work and how to become a supporter.” The Facebook Help Centre also allows Facebook users to report friends or family members whom they think are in need of help. Users can flag their friend’s account by submitting links of tell-tale wall posts or status updates. STUDY: Students With Largest Friend Lists Feel Stress. Research suggests people with the biggest lists of contacts on Facebook are likeliest to feel stressed out by the website.
This comes from an Edinburgh Napier University study of roughly 200 students, using focus groups, online surveys and one-on-one interviews. Oh, if only the research included more people and a broader array of demographic groups! Also, it would have been helpful to learn the average number of friends per person surveyed, and how big the largest ones were. About one in ten of the students said that Facebook made them feel anxious. And 32 percent said declining friend requests caused feelings of guilt and discomfort. Lead researcher Dr.
The results threw up a number of paradoxes. Teenager tries to hire a hitman via Facebook, fails. Hiring a hitman can cost a pretty penny these days.
Why buy an ad in the classifieds section when you can simply use Facebook? Of course, you may end up having to face 11 to 22 years in prison, but that's worth the risk, right? That's what happened to 19-year-old Corey C. Adams of Pennsylvania. Last June, Adams' 20-year-old victim said after she left a party, he jumped into her car and raped her. Facebook Blues... Study: Facebook is good for your self-esteem. Feeling down?
According to researchers, a visit to Facebook is likely to make you feel much better about yourself. No, really. Love it or hate it – most of us hate it – and Facebook may give us ulcers about our privacy, but an interesting new study concludes that Facebook actually boosts your self-esteem. You won't feel better about Facebook, but you may be learning to like yourself more than people who don't use social networks. In Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem: Mirror, mirror on my Facebook wall (.PDF), Cornell University researchers A.L. "To our knowledge, this study describes the first known experimental test of how exposure to Facebook impacts self-esteem generally. " Surprisingly they concluded that individuals reported higher self-esteem after spending time with their Facebook profile than after spending time looking in an actual mirror.
The results of Mirror, Mirror run contrary to many negative impressions about Facebook use Yes, they used actual mirrors. PSYCHO Facebook /52% des internautes seraient influencés par Facebook pour le choix de leurs vacances. Un sondage de Skyscanner, le comparateur de vols révèle ce qu’il nomme le « Facebook Factor » A l’issue d’une enquête menée sur le site, plus de 50% des internautes ont avoué que les photos de leurs amis leur avaient donné envie de passer des vacances au même endroit.
