{"id":19045,"date":"2016-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/scientists-have-discovered-why-you-are-addicted-to-facebook\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T00:00:00","slug":"scientists-have-discovered-why-you-are-addicted-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/scientists-have-discovered-why-you-are-addicted-to-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have discovered why you are addicted to Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A German study has found that people who share information about themselves on social media platforms like Facebook have increased brain activity in the part of the brain responsible for social reasoning and reward-related processing.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHuman beings like to share information about themselves,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep22491\" target=\"_blank\">write the authors of the research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today&#8217;s world, the way we&#8217;re able to share self-related information is by using social media platforms like Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study reveals a network of brain regions involved in the sharing of self-related information on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/03\/09\/addicted-to-posting-on-facebook-blame-your-brain\/?sf22250989=1\" target=\"_blank\">According to The Telegraph<\/a>, scientists at Free University in Berlin used brain imaging to monitor people sharing information on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scientists have discovered why you are addicted to Facebook | FIVEAA\" title=\"Scientists have discovered why you are addicted to Facebook | FIVEAA\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brain.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They found that in these people the medial prefrontal cortex \u2013 associated with reward processing \u2013 and the nucleus accumbens were activated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings extend our present knowledge of functional brain connectivity, specifically linking brain regions previously established to function in self-referential cognition to regions indicated in the cognitive process of self-disclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researches said that the impulse to share on Facebook was related to a human\u2019s social skills, which can be crucial to success in a number of areas of a person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharing self-related information is a ubiquitous behaviour that may provide adaptive advantages for individuals,\u201d according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffectively presenting oneself to others, which includes the sharing of self-related information, is a crucially important social skill, playing a role in occupational success, romantic attraction, making friends, and other desirable aspects of life.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/water-boss-won-t-be-drawn-on-compensation-after-burst-main-floods-homes\">DAVID AND WILL GRILL SA WATER BOSS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/dad-saves-son-from-flying-baseball-bat-and-certain-injury\">AMAZING \u2013 DAD SAVES SON FROM FLYING BASEBALL BAT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German study has found that people who share information about themselves on social media platforms like Facebook have increased brain activity in the part of the brain responsible for social reasoning and reward-related processing. \u201cHuman beings like to share information about themselves,\u201d write the authors of the research. \u201cIn today&#8217;s world, the way we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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