My Facebook profile page has 5000 friends and 4500 followers and my verified fanpage has 77,000. I keep it like that. I have no friends in real life. I don't like privacy or trust. Never share secrets with me. I will prolly post it on Facebook.
Scientists who studied Facebook activity and mortality rates of registered California voters found that people who received many friend requests were far less likely to die over a two-year period than those who did not. Initiating friend requests, however, seemed to have no effect on death rates whatsoever.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hint at deeper complexities in the relationship between humans’ health and their social networks — whether those networks are online, or in person.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hint at deeper complexities in the relationship between humans’ health and their social networks — whether those networks are online, or in person.
