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Do You Suffer from Facebook Envy?

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    Dr. Keith Ablow on the negative impact of the social-media website.

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FaceBook may be causing you sadness in your life and you didn't even -- it.

A new study out of -- and eight.

Says that -- whether they invented the would acts suddenly it says that looking at other people's happy moments could make you.

Envious even causing you to hate your own -- life.

Fox News contributed doctor Keith -- is -- witness and this is a serious subject right absolutely.

Life but how is it how is it possible that if I use FaceBook it makes me -- -- Well these German researchers asked over 300 respondents.

What they think people experience when they look at FaceBook one in three people said.

Envy jealousy.

And they said that's the most recent time they can remember experiencing those feelings was while looking at FaceBook.

Rationally speaking if you think about what FaceBook is it yet there -- many reality TV versions of people's lives.

These people have comb through thousands of photos to post the ones that look the most attractive.

Of themselves having fun notorious problems on FaceBook here -- They're walking -- wanted feedback it's a recipe not only for other people to feel bad.

But for people to be tremendously.

Narcissistic.

Because they're getting only positive feedback and pretending by the way that they -- hundreds or thousands of quote.

Friends you don't like social networks I think you think this is something fundamentally wrong with the way we all using them and it's really changing all those individuals and society you think that -- it's removing people from reality such that they can't cope with their problems and they will be.

In the -- in caught coping with the problems our country and our culture face because it's a virtual reality.

That's not real it's no different than on any other drug.

It takes you away from your real feelings and your real experiences and -- as you into in narcissistic.

Panic that is going to be the same as -- high on Coke and its perpetual -- is nothing you can do that there is there actually are things you can do number one you can try it would be very hard you can try to limit your kids' exposure to these things -- at least delay it or give voice to affect.

This is bad for you.

Right even when we were dealing with smoking across so many millions and millions of people the -- the people said look it's -- back for you.

May have set the stage for people -- -- -- -- and -- on the father of six you think yes -- -- and I should tell my children -- This may be bad for you not maybe this is a toxic.

Pathological.

Vice that you're participating in.

And -- the worst part of it is I do it to you might say -- -- -- -- painful -- I will hurt you for sure it will hurt you what are other things you can do.

Get him outside.

Let them play catch and have to -- catch the ball not and not they can't pretend.

Get a pat yeah a pet will love -- -- nice to it and if you -- it won't go to bathroom house real stuff is the candidate to this virtual.

-- quickly -- producer says FaceBook is really PR for how good your life as having just some not a soda but wouldn't it just tell the viewer.

What is a typical teenager going to look like on FaceBook when he walks into a job opportunity.

Well when you look at what can do a job opportunity gonna look like -- narcissistic.

Right because the bottom line is only ten years ago you posted hundreds of pictures -- you'd be called crazy.

Right ABC if you wouldn't typical of not doing -- -- overall -- -- and they employ the potential employee has nothing to go want.

It's very tough.

To pretend that you're -- balanced.

Serious person if you're posting photos of yourself drinking.

In short shorts and the rest -- -- that's one -- but the bigger problem.

Is that what it sets you up for our fictions you don't have hundreds of friends you don't have thousands.

And it's not right to post hundreds of thousands of pictures of yourself you know one it's -- -- mystical and nobody cares and the fact that you think not you but he person.

Thinks that it is okay.

That means they're all the way down the road already to be in high doctor -- tableau good stuff why why it's more more often on the program.

He told because and a busy on FaceBook and -- there I'm.

-- Getting face you know I think a lot -- -- family -- -- my your pictures -- -- seem to have a great life on FaceBook really I don't have a FaceBook page to show doesn't you know -- activity in -- -- our report and we'll get a chart we -- we've got to W gotta watch but look at our FaceBook page today because I do the little redhead.

Just like Ronald Reagan did is you gotta see it -- FaceBook everybody back in a moment.

It's good it's good you don't it.

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