In this article, psychologist Seth Meyers argues that Facebook is compared to OCD with most people with today’s society. Not only that it’s a problem, but it is also the cause for many relationship problems.
They believe that Facebook is giving many people symptoms of jealousy and paranoia. When people are interested in someone, they will end up checking their Facebook page obsessively every time they are on. This is because they try to get more information on the person to see if they are with someone else or what have they been recently up to. But when they actually get into a relationship with the person, then the Facebook stalking gets worse, because they try to see who else is writing on their partners walls and how do they know each other. Also, people tend to get worried whether they are being mentioned in their partners statuses or if they have posted and pictures on them two together yet for everyone else to see.
The article compares the Facebook situation to “OCD” because it is basically at the same level as OCD since people are always on Facebook and use it for so many things that is has now become a problem. One of the worst things about Facebook is that it breaks a lot of relationships because of someone posting up pictures or a wall post that upsets the partner.
Or even sometimes it’s because of misinterpreting something that was meaningless. Another thing is that when going on the social network to look someone’s Facebook, it will sometimes ruin people’s day because they would see something that upsets them and even though they knew they should have not looked at it, they now did and it makes them feel sad and lonely.
My Question to you is: Do you think you have Facebook OCD? And has is affected any of your relationships?
