Trending now, thanks, to Facebook, the negative effects of FB usage here, from the Newspapers, translated…
The FB Group “Handwritten Words”, was originally filled up with handwritten positive messages, but, there was a member who’d started up the “Collecting the Negative Energies” Activities, “Use one word to describe an ex”, and those who’d received the most number of kudos gets awarded, and, it’d started the Facebook community cussing out one’s own exes. The scholars reminded, that if the negative words gained the accolades, then, it would make people think more negatively, that it was an improper activity.
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The members of “Handwritten Words” had started this activity, that those who’d gained the most kudos or had the most messages left on one’s website will get rewarded with some small prizes, it’d gotten over thousands of members involved, and most people cussed out their own exes; some left “Thank heavens you’d not cherished me, otherwise, how can I possibly meet up with my true love.”
The Assistant Dean, Professor of Psychology, Ke pointed out, that there’s a “sharing” button on Facebook, like there was a series of “Fuck” groups or groups that lets the members express their negative emotions, and, gaining that “kudos” may give the members temporary relief, but for the long run, it may cause the user to develop a negative thinking style. She said, that most of people’s negative emotions revolved around anger, disgust, complaints, and the negative emotions toward the self including anxieties, and depressed, mostly; having accumulated too much anger or negative emotions are bad for one’s health, and, expressing oneself negatively long term, and gaining acceptance for it, will cause the individual to get into the habits of thinking more negatively.
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Ke believed, that using negative ways to express one’s own emotions, and the mode of negative thinking, do NOT constitute as “group therapy”, that if the person can’t deal and cope with the problems using a more positive way, then, the person will keep on, bumping into similar situations; plus, there’s high anonymity online, and, expressing one’s own negative emotions can cause the wars of words, leading to incidences of cyber-bullying.
The psychiatrist, Yeou said, that the confessions psychologies stated, that members of the public can get their pressures alleviated, if they told their anxieties, in a private, setting, where nothing would leak out, like in a confession to a priest at church or at a therapist’s office, that stating out what’s making one anxious, upset, or depressed, can help alleviate the stresses; but the prerequisite of this is that it must be in a safe environment, or to someone you believe you can trust.
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Yeou said, that in the half-opened forum like online, collecting up the negative energies, there are, hidden dangers; the biggest problem being that in expressing one’s own negative emotions online, some people would lie, and, there’s no guarantees, that everybody who read will keep the secrets, if after the individual ranted aloud, and felt better, and became regretful toward what was said, the individuals cannot take back what was already stated, and it may cause conflicts, and court cases too.
He believed, that there are dangers to expressing emotions online too, if the members of the online community have a difference of opinion than the person who’d posted the statements originally, it can turn the blowing-off-steam into a full-blown debate, or, the person may feel insulted, and start getting at it with others, and, instead of blowing off steam, the individual may get even angrier, and accumulates even more negative energies.
But, if we can’t rant about life on FB, where, can we rant about our lives??? Facebook had become, the most popular (I’m thinkin’???) medium for expressing one’s own thoughts, and, if you said something negative that rang true to someone else who was reading it, and the person gives you a kudos or whatever, then, it would make you more likely, to express even MORE negative thoughts the next time, because you’re feeling encouraged by the anonymous person, giving you a kudo for your negative thoughts, and that, is just not good, because it will fuel to you, expressing more negative emotions online…
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