Is Facebook Causing Trouble In Your Marriage?

Ran across an article that talks about how Facebook can incite jealousy in a relationship. The highly addictive social network can be a great tool for communication, networking and all other types of positive activities but when it starts to cause a problem in your relationship then you may need to pump your brakes. Researchers recently did a study on college students and this is what they came up with:

Here’s how Amy Muise of the University of Guelph in Ontario and her colleagues think the ugly green-eyed monster rears its head:

Student spends time on Facebook. He or she monitors the profile page of a significant other, finding ambiguous information about their partner that they otherwise may not have access to. This new information stirs up jealous feelings in said student, who then scours for more Facebook information that further fuels the fire.

This escalating cycle can become addictive, according to the new research published in the August issue of the journal CyberPsychology & Behavior.

The article goes on to talk about how the jealousy triggers are the same as before but now access to this information is just more readily available and out in the open for your significant other to see.

BMWK family we’re just asking that you don’t end up like the video below…