Facebook Fuels Jealousy
I am quite sure that the overwhelming majority of the pastorpusch.com audience are members of the social networking site, Facebook, so I thought this was blog worthy. On my way 
to work the radio station I was listening to at the time gave a 1-2 minute blurb concerning the jealously of those whose significant others were facebook users. What’s the deal?
For all you facebook users out there, here are a couple questions to consider. Are you “friends” with former girlfriends/boyfriends? Do you have “friends” of the opposite sex who are unknown to your significant other? If so, research indicates Facebook may be fueling the flame of jealousy. ”In a study of 308 Facebook users, researchers discovered that people who are more prone to jealousy will find Facebook just reinforces that jealousy.”
“The researchers created their own specialized quiz for the study, called the Facebook Jealousy scale. The scale is composed of 27 items that are measured on a 7-point scale from “very likely” to “very unlikely” that assess Facebook-related jealousy. According to the study, sample items include “How likely are you to become jealous after your partner has added an unknown member of the opposite sex?” and “How likely are you to monitor your partner’s activities on Facebook?””
“Researchers found that if you’re more likely to be a jealous person (what psychologists call “trait jealousy”), you’re more likely to have “Facebook jealousy” too. Women were more likely to be jealous than men. And here’s the kicker — time spent on Facebook contributed a tiny part to Facebook jealousy. (Women spend more time on Facebook than men.)”
Read the full article here.
Is there something to be said here? What say you?
August 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
pretty interesting. Luckily, I’m not in that group of jealous users. My husband does Mafia Wars on Facebook, but that’s about it. I’m the one that set up a Facebook for him in the first place, so I know his password, but I’m so blessed to have a faithful husband and know that I’ll never have to use his password to know what he’s up to. I can definitely see where couples would get jealous of their significant other’s friends.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I took the Facebook Jealously Quiz. Turns out my jealously level is Darth Vader with a side of Homer Simpson and my 5 Favorite Comedies are Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Black Sheep, and Dodgeball. Facebook is so enlightening!
Just kidding! Interesting study. Definitely makes sense! It can control us…whether we realize it or not.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Kinda funny if you ask me…. personally anyway. Because you spend WAY more time on there than I do… and I am not jealous…
August 14th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Facebook makes me jealous of guys who write really great blogs.
(wink wink LOL)