AIMAN INAM
LONDON: With the passage of time, stress levels are soaring. As to control over it, innumerable people tend to indulge in different sort of activities such as exercise, yoga and other physical commotions.
However, now savants discover another simple way, which could help you in reducing stress i.e. abandon facebook. Unbelievable? Believe it!
Pundits from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia under the guidance of Prof. Eric Vanman set out to recognize the effects of deleting Facebook on its users’ stress levels and overall well-being.
The study comprised on some 138 respondents. All of them have been divided into two separate groups. One group was asked to quit Facebook for five days while the other group kept on using the social networking sites.
In addition, their mouth fluid was being analyzed so as to gauge the levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
Their findings demonstrated that those, who quit Facebook, have been reported with reduced levels of the stress.
It is to be noted that extreme levels of cortisol can potentially mess with human’s immune system, resulting into mounting infections, obesity and belly fat while affecting memory, cognition and thyroid function.
Supporting the findings, the study senior investigator Eric further held that their outcomes would be the same to all social networking sites as, people’s stress levels would certainly diminish when they leave any social media sites.
Journal of Social Psychology has run the ramifications.
It is pertinent to mention here that ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal of mishandling the huge data of Facebook users came out, it started losing approx a million users on a daily basis from around the world particularly the States and Canada.
