What is Facebook Envy?
Jan 19, 2017 · 1 min read
Facebook, the world’s biggest social network with over a billion users, is an unparalleled platform for social assessment. Given its reach and range, it has been the go-to place for many social scientists.
A few years back, German scientists found that watching your friends’ holidays, love-lives and business-successes on Facebook can create envy in you. Which can then set off emotions of anguish and loneliness.
A joint-research team from two German colleges, with Thomas Widjaja, Helena Wenninger and Peter Buxman from Darmstadt Technical University, and Hanna Krasnova from Humboldt University, found a widespread presence of envy on Facebook.
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