Thursday, July 3, 2014

Study shows Twitter as a possible cause of divorce – EXAME.com

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 São Paulo – The overuse of microblog Twitter can cause conflicts and other harmful effects to two relations, revealed on Thursday a study released in the U.S.

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 The research followed the footsteps of previous work, which already gave shows the impact of Facebook on marriage and romantic relationships in general.


 Published in the journal “Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking,” the study revealed that “the active use of Twitter can generate many conflicts between couples tied the social network, which in the long term can lead to infidelity, separation and divorce” .

 The author Dr. Russell Clayton of the University of Missouri, concluded that this finding adds to the large number of pre-existing evidence on the dark side of social networking and its role in interpersonal relationships.


 Another study from Clayton, published in the same journal last year, found that excessive use of Facebook had a negative impact on romantic relationships.


 The editor-in-chief, Brenda Wiederhold, added that these studies highlight the need to further study the impact of the use of social networks.


 ”As the research on social networks is still in its infancy, we do not know if other means such as Instagram, for example, can also have a negative impact on human relationships,” he wrote in a statement.


 For the latest study, researchers interviewed 581 Twitter users. Among the questions were how often they used the social network and the type of conflict that users faced with their partners because of the use of microblogging.


 Clayton concluded that the more active is the Twitter user, the greater the chances for conflicts with or companion because of the social network.


 These findings “will, in part, to the same effect” of previous research presented in Clayton on Facebook.


 ”Based on the findings of two studies, both Twitter as Facebook have harmful effects on couples,” wrote Clayton.

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