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Girls stress more about Facebook

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An Australiansurvey has

found that

women were

more stressed

out than men to

keep their

Facebook status

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An Australian survey has found that women were more stressed

out than men to keep their Facebook status updates interesting.

Sixty nine per cent women of the 420 Australians interviewed

said they felt the pressure to keep their status updated, as

opposed to only 39 per cent of men, reports News.

The Cenovis Chill Pill survey, conducted by Galaxy research, has

suggested that the pressures associated with social media are a

large contributor to high stress levels among its users.

While 63 per cent believed social media was contributing to the

stress levels, over one third (37 per cent) felt under pressure to

be in constant contact and 35 per cent said there was an

expectation to

respond quickly to

messages.

Over 13 per cent felt

stressed while trying

to be witty in writing

status updates on

Facebook.

La Trobe University

law student Nikkita


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Venville said she could relate to the survey's findings.

"There's a bit of pressure to have a unique status that people will

laugh at and press the 'like' button," said the 24-year-old from

Melbourne.

Venville said she felt 'out of loop' if she did not check or respond

to messges on Facebook regularly.

She said that she was spending so much time on Facebook

that she asked her sister to change her password so she could

study for her exams.

Popular Facebook users 'feel more stress'

Facebook users with more friends suffer more stress

and "neurotic limbo" from feeling they have to

continually update and amuse their larger

audiences, according to new research.

But the claim has met skepticism from

internet psychology experts, who question

the methodology of the study.

A team at Edinburgh Napier University

gathered online survey responses from 175

students about their feelings towards

Facebook. Almost three quarters of

respondents were women.

Dr Kathy Charles, who led the study, said:

"We found it was actually those with the

most contacts, those who had invested the most time in the site, who were the ones most

likely to be stressed.

"It's like being a mini news channel about yourself. The more people you have the more

you feel there is an audience there. You are almost a mini celebrity and the bigger the

audience the more pressure you feel to produce something about yourself."

Some 12 per cent of respondents said Facebook makes them feel anxious. They had an

average of 117 friends on the site, compared to an average of 75 friends for the rest of

the students.

Acorss the whole sample, 63 per cent said they

put off responding to new friend requests.


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"Many also told us they were anxious about withdrawing from the site for fear of

missing important social information or offending contacts," said Dr Charles.

Eleanor Barlow, an managing consultant specialising in cyberpsychology at IBM, said

the claims were interesting, but should not be applied to the wider population on

Facebook.

"Students often use Facebook in a quite different way to the rest of us," she explained.

"They are exploring their identity at that age, including online."

Despite the ubiquity of Facebook among students, the Edinburgh Napier study found

they often feel it offers only modest or tenuous rewards.

"But many also told us they were anxious about withdrawing from the site for fear of

missing important social information or offending contacts," said Dr Charles.

"Like gambling, Facebook keeps users in a neurotic limbo, not knowing whether they

should hang on in there just in case they miss out on something good."

In November it was claimed by doctors writing in The Lancet that stress from a

Facebook update triggered an athsma attack in a 17-year old girl.

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