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11/04/2013
In a report by the Daily Mail, psychologists at Oxford University found husband and wives who kept in touch using the social networking site had less satisfying marriages.
The researchers surveyed 3,500 couples and the types of social media they used.
This included Facebook, Twitter, emails, text messages and instant messages.
Of those using more than five different social media avenues to communicate with their partner, there was a 14% fall in their average relationship satisfaction.
Dr Bernie Hogan, from Oxford Internet Institute, suggested this martial disharmony could be triggered by the stress and pressure of constantly having to maintain so many different threads of communication.
He explained: "Using these media is great in moderation. But more is not necessarily better.
"We need to walk back from the idea that more communication by more media is a good thing.
"We have been drunk on new media over the past ten years. Now we realise that its absence is bad, but overuse is also bad."
Dr Hogan's comments follow a new poll which suggests Britons spend an estimated 62 million hours each day on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The poll, which was carried out for bank firstdirect, suggested that around 34 million hours were spent on Facebook, with a further 28 million hours spent on Twitter.
Of the UK's 33m Facebook users, 30% were found to be on the site for at least an hour a day, with 13% spending at least two hours on the site each day.
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Facebook 'Puts Strain' On Marriage
New research has warned that couples who use Facebook to communicate, could be putting strain on their relationship.In a report by the Daily Mail, psychologists at Oxford University found husband and wives who kept in touch using the social networking site had less satisfying marriages.
The researchers surveyed 3,500 couples and the types of social media they used.
This included Facebook, Twitter, emails, text messages and instant messages.
Of those using more than five different social media avenues to communicate with their partner, there was a 14% fall in their average relationship satisfaction.
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Dr Bernie Hogan, from Oxford Internet Institute, suggested this martial disharmony could be triggered by the stress and pressure of constantly having to maintain so many different threads of communication.
He explained: "Using these media is great in moderation. But more is not necessarily better.
"We need to walk back from the idea that more communication by more media is a good thing.
"We have been drunk on new media over the past ten years. Now we realise that its absence is bad, but overuse is also bad."
Dr Hogan's comments follow a new poll which suggests Britons spend an estimated 62 million hours each day on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The poll, which was carried out for bank firstdirect, suggested that around 34 million hours were spent on Facebook, with a further 28 million hours spent on Twitter.
Of the UK's 33m Facebook users, 30% were found to be on the site for at least an hour a day, with 13% spending at least two hours on the site each day.
(JP/CD)
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