Why keeping away from Facebook is so difficult!

If you try to regulate your Facebook usage and fail, you feel bad, so you turn to Facebook and feel bad again. It is a cycle of self-regulatory failure, according to Allison Eden, assistant professor at Michigan State University. However, the guilt is more damaging to the psyche than failing to control the media, Eden said. The solution could be to remove some of the cues from your environment, like, for example, removing the Facebook logo from a cell phone home screen. Media, including social media, is one of the most commonly failed goals to regulate. More here.

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