According to a report from psychologists, the more vocal you are about your relationship on Facebook means you are more likely to have insecurities regarding your partner.
The report, titled ‘Can You Tell I’m In a Relationship,’ suggests that those who love making status updates about their girlfriend/boyfriend, habitually post photographs of them together and love hammering it down your throat that they’re in love are more likely to not actually be happy in their relationship, with those whose profile photos include an image of them and their partner also coming under fire from the psychologists, who suggest that this is potentially an indication that their relationship is on the rocks.
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My reaction to this report falls somewhere between “duh” and “of course!” because everyone knows that people who make lots of status updates about their partner and who have a cuddly photograph of them all loved up together are clearly…
…oh.
The report also notes the differences between anxious and avoidant people, and their attitudes to posting about the relationship on Facebook. It reads: “In a first study, we found that anxious individuals wanted their relationships to be visible to others on Facebook, whereas avoidant individuals did not. Avoidant individuals were also less likely to post a relationship status or a dyadic profile picture.
“We also looked at the motives behind these differences. Anxious individuals thought that other people knowing about their relationship would make them feel better about themselves, whereas avoidant people thought that it would make them feel worse about themselves. Both anxious and avoidant people were concerned that other people thought they had unstable, unhappy relationships, but this led anxious people to want their relationships to be visible and avoidant people to want their relationships to be less visible.”
So there you have it, anxious folks: if you post about your relationship a lot it’s probably terrible, and you’ll likely break up and then proceed to live and die alone. Have a nice day!
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