re: Facebook: Has it advanced society or caused it to regress?

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Facebook and other social media are proven to be harmful to brain chemistry. Little dopamine echo chambers that cause people to regress socially.

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Better watch the incoming ban, you're affecting Chickens bottom line.

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All I see on my Facebook feed now is fat stay at home moms 

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Destroying marriages and car bumpers

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We explored the relationship in the U.S. between SNS use and relationship satisfaction among a nationally representative sample of married individuals, as well as the association between Face- book penetration and divorce rates at a state-level. Survey results revealed a positive correlation between more frequent use of SNS and the variables that reflected lower marriage quality, marriage unhappiness, experiencing a troubled relationship, and thinking about separating. This was consistent with state-level analyses, in which we found that across the U.S., the diffusion of Facebook between 2008 and 2010 is positively correlated with divorce rates, a relationship that held in the presence of numerous control variables. Two possible explanations may account for this negative corre- lation. From a self-selection perspective, this phenomenon can be understood by the fact that it is not so much that social network services such as Facebook causes problematic relationships be- tween couples or cause divorce, but that divorcees and individuals in unhappy marriages use Facebook and SNS more often because it proves beneficial to them by providing emotional support. Accord- ing to this first view, Facebook would be fulfilling its raison d’être (or at least its vision) as it connects people with friends, family, and other strong ties. That means that divorcees or people going through difficult moments in their marriage would choose this so- cial network site to communicate with their close contacts, trying to found the psychological well-being that often flows from bond- ing social capital.

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They found “a 20 percent annual increase in the share of a state’s population with a Facebook account is associated with a 2.18 percent increase in the divorce rate.” That relationship remained robust after taking into account such variables as income, unemployment, and the statewide rate of Internet access.

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