{"id":27665,"date":"2013-10-10T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humintell.com\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:00:25","slug":"hate-reading-on-social-networking-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2013\/10\/hate-reading-on-social-networking-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hate Reading’ on Social Networking Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social media is dominating the structure of human lives.\u00a0 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc are popular all over the world.\u00a0 People “Check-In” on their friends, their enemies and people they don’t even talk to anymore.<\/p>\n

Why do we impulsively “check-in” on people we don’t interact with especially the individuals with which we’ve had a falling out?<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has the answer – Hate Reading<\/em>.\u00a0 According to the article Hate Reading,<\/em> mostly of social media sites, provides us with “satisfaction from fury-fueled engagement with someone who should theoretically not provide it.”<\/p>\n

Katie J. M. Baker, a writer for Jezebel commented, \u201cI<\/span> <\/em>usually hate-read alone, late at night when I\u2019m procrastinating, drunk, bored or all three,\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong> she wrote.<\/span> \u201cWhen I finally walk away from my computer, I feel like I\u2019ve just binged on a butter-sogged bag of popcorn before the movie even started: I\u2019m slightly nauseated, but still can\u2019t help licking my fingers for more fatty flavor.<\/em><\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jillian Sanders is also a self confessed hate reader.\u00a0 She frequently visits the Facebook page of a high-school classmate she hasn\u2019t talked to in years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why it infuriates me,\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong> said Sanders, 31, a freelance book publicist. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>She\u2019ll often describe, say, how her favorite ice cream flavor makes her happy all day. I feel like she\u2019s lying. I get upset watching people post pictures of a rainbow that says \u2018I believe in magic\u2019 \u2014 upset that they\u2019re projecting that image and thinking others are falling for it, or that they\u2019re falling for it themselves. Maybe I\u2019m just jealous.<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Stanford study<\/strong><\/a> suggested we underestimate negative emotion in others\u2019 lives (a misjudgment exacerbated by the cheery cast of most social-media personae).\u00a0 Alexander Jordan<\/strong><\/a>, assistant professor of business administration at Dartmouth said, \u201cSome research suggests that downward emotional comparisons can improve people\u2019s well-being.<\/em><\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

He went on to comment in an interview, \u201cIt\u2019s when a person\u2019s typically rosy self-view is temporarily threatened that self-enhancement processes, such as finding people to \u2018hate\u2019 online, are triggered.\u00a0 Research has also shown that people who are chronically unhappy or low in self-esteem are more concerned about social comparisons, upward or downward, in general.<\/em><\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Come On Let’s Admit it, Do YOU Hate Read?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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