Materialists collect Facebook friends and spend more time on social media

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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsFile -- London, If you’re materialistic, you’re likely to use Facebook more frequently and intensely. A new paper in Heliyon reveals that materialistic people see and treat their Facebook friends as “digital objects,” and have significantly more friends than people who are less interested in possessions. It also shows that materialists have a greater need to compare themselves with others on Facebook.

The study reveals that materialistic people use Facebook to both achieve their goals and feel good. The authors of the paper, from the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, have developed a new theory to explain this: The Social Online Self-Regulation Theory.

“Materialistic people use Facebook more frequently because they tend to objectify their Facebook friends - they acquire Facebook friends …

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(2017-12-04), Materialists collect Facebook friends and spend more time on social media, NewsFile, 133, ISSN: 0000-0000, BUTTER® ID: 014802788

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