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Flocking - Social Networking & Real Life

'Flocking' behavior lands on social networking sites

Because social networks online are much more clearly defined than offline connections, they have been a boon to researchers. And studies are finding that despite dire predictions from naysayers who warned that spending too much time online would be damaging to real-life relationships, the opposite appears to be true. The findings, trickling in from early research, suggest health and psychological benefits for those who "friend" and are "friended." Ref. Source 9

Life Real and Networking Social Flocking

I think you can be a fanatic of anything if you overdo. I just check my messages, answer whatever needs to be answered and press the "log off" button so I can go play in real life!

Flocking - Social Networking & Real Life Health & Special Psychology

Network sites 'need help buttons'

Social networking websites are criticised for not adopting a help button for children to report concerns about grooming and bullying. Ref. Source 1

Life Real and Networking Social Flocking

Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US:

Twitter and Facebook don't connect people - they isolate them from reality, say a rising number of academics. Ref. Source 8

Life Real and Networking Social Flocking

Your friends have more friends than you do

No matter how smart and funny you think you are, those you follow on Twitter really do have a larger following than you. And the same holds true for Facebook. But there is no reason to feel badly about any of this, according to researchers who say that it is all due to the inherently hierarchical nature of social media networks, where, in the social hierarchy of connections, people mostly either follow up or across; they rarely follow down. Ref. Source 7q.

Flocking - Social Networking & Real Life

People could be genetically predisposed to social media use

Scientists used a behavior genetics framework and twin study data from the 2013 Midlife in the United States survey, York examined how both environmental and genetic factors contribute to social media use by applying an analytical model called Defries-Fulker Regression. Ref. Source 7o.

Flocking Social Networking & Real Life

How (And why) to take a break from Facebook and other social media. Are you over Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? Take a social media 'time out.' Source 1h.

Flocking Social Networking & Real Life Psychology Special & Health

I do not get on Facebook nearly as much as I used to get on. I have focused more on other things. I will check to see what my friends are up to and respond to messages if needed. I do not tweet or instagram or any of the other new things kids are into.