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Seeking parenting advice on social media
As it is said in the article referenced below, social media are usually viewed as a source of information and knowledge, not only in the field of parenting skills, but in every question that may appear on people's mind.
However, the main purpose of this text is the way parents use the social media to get some advice about their kids and the way they should take care of them. And people found that very useful, more that the expected, because normally when you become a parent you search for advice in your family and friends that already have the experience of being a parent.
However not every parent that is a user of social media, use them to look for parenting advice, still, some admit that when they are surfing though the social media they find tips and tricks that seem to become very useful. Also, when parents use social media, sometimes the main purpose is not to look for advice or opinions on what they should do or act like, but to look for some emotional support and to see that they are not alone in the journey of being a parent, even though this situation is not as common as the first one.
This show us that even when it comes to parenting, people found internet as a source of reliable and trustful information. Individuals sometimes made use of the internet instead of talking to a doctor or even with the family because as we all know being a mother or a father is something that you can not learn on the internet, is something that you will learn with the experience, of course internet can be useful because there are some matters that are common to every person that already has been parent.
URL: https://www.pewinternet.org/2015/07/16/seeking-parenting-advice-on-social-media/
Being A Facebook Wallflower Isn't Good For You, The Social Site Says
Sometimes we wonder how much impact does a social network have in our daily life, and by analysing this study we can conclude that it plays such an important role that it has the power to change our mood in seconds.
As a study made in 2015 at the University of Michigan reports, if an individual spends some time in Facebook only seeing what the others post, and not interacting with them or posting something too, people tend to start feeling sad. They concluded that if you interact with other people in social media by commenting, posting and sharing content with your friends, you start feeling better.
In fact, in association with Carnegie Mellon University, Facebook made a research and found out that people who made use of the social network by sharing, commenting and sending messages showed some progresses in case of suffering from depression or loneliness. Basically, it says that the much closer you are with people on Facebook the happier you will feel.
However, the conclusions that were taken from this are not the same to everybody.
A study made by Oxford and the University of California, San Diego, came up with the theory that talking with someone in person, show more benefits in the social life of someone instead of keeping in touch with them through Facebook.
Somebody commented about that by saying that the results of the study made by fakebook and Carnegie Mellon University, are not a surprise, because the only purpose of the study is to promote the brand and encourage people to use this social network to solve their social interaction problem.
I totally agree with this last opinion, sometimes people refugee themselves in Facebook or in any other type of social network, as a way of faking their happiness and trying to pretend that all that friends and comments are "filling up" their souls and their ego. And in some cases, it really does, but in my point of view that is not the right way of making your inner self happy. I guess that having a face to face conversation with someone is healthier and will make you feel closer to that person than if you do it online.