Facebook May Lead to Psychological Disorders in Teens

[Guest]

Hey, I don't use Facebook and I also tend to "love myself" a lot.....

 

[makaveli316]

Those people, we can call them professors or scientist, who make these king of statements or researches, are having less social life than any teen on facebook.

 

[makaveli316]

*kind

 

[Pyree]

OMG! This research is like so totally retarded! Cos my friends and I are all on FB and we are all like so totally awesome! There is no way the study is real!

 

[nukemaster]

Look at all those "Likes" on facebook for this page

 

[velocityg4]

How does Dr. Rosen know that social networking is the cause of these psychological problems? It seems to me that it would be far more likely that people with these psychological disorders and those whom are normally easily distracted from studying. Are more likely to be drawn to social networking and become an obsessive user.

Therefore you get a higher percentage of people with disorders than you would expect in the general population.

 

[AMD_pitbull]

[citation][nom]bak0n[/nom]Not possible. There has to be an innate state for someone to have a psychological disorder. All environmental factors can do is push what is already there over the stressor limit. And yes, I have a degree in social psychology.[/citation]
Quick question: So people caught by mob mentality have to have some sort of poor psychological disposition before-hand in order to participate in something? Interesting. Most things I've heard Come down to being more of a product of your environment. IE, A good person brought up in an abusive home being an extremest one way or the other on that matter. Thoughts on that?
[citation][nom]EnFoRceR22[/nom]Facebook, myspace, IM's. All anti social. I know this one girl if there isn't a keyboard in front of her she wouldn't know how to interact with you to save her life. She has the social skills of a rock. I still don't buy facebook as needed to keep in touch with people. I'm sure no one has forgotten about the phone by now. At best talking to people on that useless garbage of a site makes you a pen pal.[/citation]
It's a good tool for talking to people at a distance. I get to keep in touch with family in Montreal, Calgary, Texas. See how they're doing, what's new, etc, without paying for long-distance charges. It'd be like you using Skype and calling THAT anti-social for not using a rotary phone. Any tool can be abused. [citation][nom]eiskrystal[/nom]So, people that are narcissistic make big FB prescences...well i'd never have guessed that.That something which is distracting and naturally disrupts your school work leads to lower grades is also pretty damn obvious.So FB is the latest boogy-man blamed on poor school grades rather than the appalling state of our education system that leaves children so bored and uninterested they need constant distractions. Yawn...[/citation]
As long as people don't want to accept responsibility for their own actions, there will always be a new scapegoat. FB, computers in general, TV, music. The medium doesn't matter. Parents quite often seek another reason as to why their kids get into drugs, prison, or are failures in life, rather than admit they just didn't do their damn job to begin with.

 

[hoofhearted]

What is the big deal with facebook? All it is is email with an improved distribution mechanism.

 

[Pyree]

I am a social network user and after I read this article I just went "Screw it, this Dr already label me as such, why not go full on narcissistic". Guess what? My last post on alter-ego was negatived! If you follow Tom's hardware you probably see me around often and know I am not that narcissistic person. I am worry that this article may become the cause of behavioral problem of teenager and young adults by generating profound social labeling thus behavioral problem causes more negative views on social network users, ending up in an ever lasting cycle.

 

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]jacekring[/nom]I totally agree...in 50 years we will have holodecks and the virtual porn will be AMAZING...nobody will go anywhere after work/school except to F some porn star in their own personal holodeck.[/citation]

"The Direct neural Interface and 4D Mind-Cube is making today's children antisocial. They need to go back to digital days and get on the Facebook and LiveJournal more, stop exchanging thoughtversations with their friends on Pluto and Alpha Centauri 5 and get back to sharing digital emails with their great great great dead grandparents on Neptune."

 

[kingnoobe]

Ah so pirate I'm a crappy individual eh.. Since I use facebook? So even though I serve my country, been deployed, enlisted during wartime.. I'm a crappy individual? I'm not saying that makes me a saint plenty of crappy people in the army. But I would at least hope it outweights me checking facebook every now and then..

O screw all that you're the idiot for generalizing a whole group of people over what some do. You racist to? Cause you realize that's sord of their thing...

Even if somebody is addicted to facebook doesn't make them bad. Maybe lonely, but not bad. They could still go to work, and live otherwise a normal life, they tend to just spend it on facebook.

As far as kids.. I agree with the guy. Parents need to step up, and quit trying to use software or other crutches (specially teachers) to raise their kids. That's the problem these days.. Parents have either gotten to soft, never home, expect others to raise their kids, or simply don't care what their kids do. Then blame somebody else when something goes wrong.

 

[bin1127]

[citation][nom]bak0n[/nom]Not possible. There has to be an innate state for someone to have a psychological disorder. All environmental factors can do is push what is already there over the stressor limit. And yes, I have a degree in social psychology.[/citation]

Facebook radically changes our interaction with others in a society and how it changes a person is not known. If we all carry around an innate 'need' that cannot be satisfied we will create an addiction to anything that carries a glimmer of hope of making us feel better, even if it makes us feel worse once it gets taken away from us. So we can either give ourselves time to reflect on our lives or dive thoughtlessly into the technologies so abundant today.

 

[fishyfish]

Another 'it was better when I was young' flamewar starts in 3...2...1... GO!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

A rather surprising find, cause most of the teens I see on facebook show more of a depressive nature with little or no selfrespect .... how can you be narcissistic at the same time? Sure my 'study' is just observational in a very uncontrolled group ... but still.

 

[Rab1d-BDGR]

Social networking can even help introverted adolescents learn how to socialize without having to leave the screen.

I learned my social skills from an MMORPG called "Outside" - the graphics were awesome but the game-play sucked and there were no re-spawn points. I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[bildo123]

So same ol' same ol'; FaceBook is still nothing but a pile of WasteBook.