Facebook Sparks Jealousy

Monday, February 15, 2010, 16:35

Facebooking is certainly the perfect way to re-unite with old friends and make new ones. But the social networking site also has the ability to turn you green with jealousy when you find your boyfriend's friends list includes his ex-girlfriends.

Now, human sexuality researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Guelph in Canada, Amy Muise, has read into this Facebook ability and this is what he came up with.

It's Addictive

Face book is alluring. Though it creates online crack and you try to fight it! No matter how you try to fight it, it keeps calling you back and that's the problem.
Muise came up experiment to control factors of trust, self-esteem, and relationship commitment,but still a significant predictor of the experience of jealousy keeps coming back.
If nothing causes jealousy in your relationship Facebook does.

It's Too Easy to Reconnect with Ex's

A person may have felt his earlier relationship and getting into a new one but Facebook keeps bring back the old fond memories. Whenever you surf your Facebook you are sure to bump into the old relation and eventually they are in your friend list. But the present relation won't accept it and a complex grows out of nothing.

It Over-Informs

In this information age not even relationships are spared. All one needs to do is to log on to the "tagged" pictures, the "liked" statuses, and the shared plans for this weekend. All are potential triggers of jelousy.
Facebook exposes you to your partner more than you would want to expose and this reveals some secret plans which gives rise to jelousy.

It Appeals to Women, to Their Chagrin

Women spent more time on Facebook than men. Which means their relationship jealousy was more likely to be ignited by Facebook than a man's. Facebook is their medium of knowing more about their Boyfriend and get hold of some suspicion.

It May Just Be You

At the end of the day, we have to confess that it is not Facebook which is introducing jelousy but it already resides in us. We are just using Facebook to ignite the green monster.

Muise and her colleagues later recognized that other factors like the dynamic of the relationship and one's own propensity towards jealous behavior could also make them Facebook jealous.