The UNC-Chapel Hill data showed that the amount of time people spend passively browsing social media—scrolling through feeds and looking for updates—was unrelated to positive states, and strongly linked to anxiety and other negative feelings.
"If your feeds are like ours, they're mostly composed of distressing news and politicking. Keeping up with these endless streams is far from uplifting," says Frederickson.
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With that, I believe I will go golfing.
I thought the object was to RELIEVE stress?
Seriously, haven't been out since February with back surgery, COVID, and then a broken toe, my son is still playing regularly, he says the game is a lot quicker with everyone in their own cart, I hope that solution. becomes the new normal.
"When one’s appeal is emotional, it does not matter if there is no substance."
