Could Facebook Use Damage Your Health?

The more people use Facebook, like posts, share their own links and are exposed to the carefully crafted profiles of their friends, the worse they will feel, a study suggests.

Previous investigations into the use of social media have suggested that retreating online and away from face-to-face social relationships can lead to sedentary behavior and internet addiction.

However, a more in-depth study by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that almost every form of interaction with Facebook can lead to diminished well-being.

Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Holly Shakya and Nicholas Christakis said the three Facebook behaviors they measured—liking, posting, and clicking links—all led to negative self-comparisons and made people feel worse about themselves.

The pair expected liking other people’s content to be the largest driver of decreased happiness but said overall the sheer quantity of time people spent interacting with the social media app led to the negative effects.

The results were particularly concerning for mental health. “Most measures of Facebook use in one year predicted a decrease in mental health in a later year,” Shakya and Christakis wrote.

“We found consistently that both liking others’ content and clicking links significantly predicted a subsequent reduction in self-reported physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction,” they added.

The study, published by Oxford University Press, collected three sets of data from 5,208 U.S. adults over two years and measured how their mental health, reported physical health, and body-mass index changed over time relative to their use of Facebook.

It also collected information on the subjects’ real-world social interaction. While the numbers showed the use of the social network led to a lessened sense of well-being, how exactly that happened was unclear. “ We cannot definitively say how [it] occurs,” Shakya and Christakis wrote.

The researchers concluded: “What seems quite clear ... is that online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.”

SOURCES: MSN

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Meaning for wife's lines....

The wife says: You want
The wife means: You want

The wife says: We need
The wife means: I want

The wife says: It's your decision
The wife means: The correct decision should be obvious

The wife says: Do what you want
The wife means: You'll pay for this later

The wife says: We need to talk
The wife means: I need to complain

The wife says: Sure  go ahead
The wife means: I don't want you to

The wife says: I'n not upset
The wife means: Of course I'm upset you moron

The wife says: You're  so manly
The wife means: You need a shave and sweat a lot

The wife says: Be romantic, turn out the lights
The wife means: I have flabby thighs.

The wife says: This kitchen is so inconvenient
The wife means: I want a new house.

The wife says: I want new curtains.
The wife means: Also carpeting, furniture, and wallpaper!

The wife says: I need wedding shoes.
The wife means: The other forty pairs are the wrong shade of white.

The wife says: Hang the picture there
The wife means: No, I mean hang it there!

The wife says: I heard a noise
The wife means: I noticed you were almost asleep.

The wife says: Do you love me?
The wife means: I'm going to ask for something expensive.

The wife says: How much do you love me?
The wife means: I did something today you're not going to like.

The wife says: I'll be ready in a minute.
The wife means: Kick off your shoes and take an hour nap.

The wife says: Am I fat?
The wife means: Tell me I'm beautiful.

The wife says: You have to learn to communicate.
The wife means: Just agree with me.

The wife says: Are you listening to me?
The wife means: [Too late, your doomed.]

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This Video Explains How to Properly Use Color-Correcting Makeup

If you want to offset dark circles, redness, or dark spots with makeup, you have to understand how using orange, green, yellow, and a few other colors can even out your skin tone—called color-correcting. The technique is popular, but really easy to mess up. This video helps clear up the confusion.

The whole thing is based on the color wheel. If we remember our primary colors—blue, yellow, red—and their blending properties, we can “cancel out” certain hues in our skin by using the color that’s opposite on the color wheel. These are the basics:

• Peach/Orange: For dark blue-ish circles under eyes, pigmentation, and acne scarring. Use peach for lighter skin tones and orange/red for darker skin tones.
• Green: Can be used for redness (like sun burns or rosacea) around the mouth or cheeks.
• Purple: Adds a bit of brightness to grey-ish, dull skin.
• Yellow: Generally brightens your skin tone.

The main idea is that you’re correcting, not concealing. YouTuber Kaushal Beauty shares a couple of other tips to keep in mind:

• Make sure your skin is clean and primed before you apply any makeup.
• It’s always better to start with less product and build up.
• It’s easy to overdo it with the brush. For under eyes, you’ll have better success using your ring finger to gently dab a thin layer of makeup and work it into your skin for a more natural look.
• Once you’ve corrected your skin tone, Kaushal Beauty recommends using a makeup sponge and patting your foundation, rather than using broad strokes.

It’s a long video, but those are the general takeaways. Hit the play button for more details.

Sources

LIFEHACKER

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Happy Women’s Day: Amazing Women Who Totally Rocked The Science And Tech World

Women have been making noteworthy contributions to the world of science and tech world since the earliest known times. Many women have displayed their endeavors by defying the restrictions and have overcome the difficulties in their own ways. Nowadays the situation is somehow better and women don’t face the problems they used to face in the past.

O

n the occasion of International Women’s Day, sharing an enriching infographic of the women who totally rocked at science and tech. 

If you want to encourage the women in your life to pursue a career in science and tech, it’ll surely inspire them. These women have excelled in their work and accomplished so much to become distinguished.

Also read: Know Everything About World’s First Programmer, Ada Lovelace

In world-famous writer Virginia Woolf’s words:

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

These women are from different fields of science like biology, nuclear physics, biophysicists, space scientists and more.

Take a look at the infographic:

Infographic source: 
LiveScience / FOSSBYTES

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