Are you a Selfie maniac? Things to consider before you post that photos.

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We all have that online friend who just can’t stop posting photos. Varying in all types of situation and experience such as what they eat for breakfast, what will they be wearing to school or work, who’s they’re hanging with and so much more.  Aren’t you pissed sometimes?  Recent research shows that users who are trigger-happy with the photo upload and share buttons on the site and use them a little too regularly not only cause their friends to disregard their posts, but peril losing them altogether.

So it’s not just the act of sharing your photos on Twitter or Facebook that unintentionally alienates your contacts or friends – based on the study performed by Heriot-Watt University and University of Birmingham, a University of the West of England, the University of Edinburgh, the volume of pictures  you upload and the theme or subject of the albums you share have a direct impact on the relationships you have with your contacts on the social media. To validate this theory, the researchers evaluated their test subjects using a two-part analysis. The first part involved questioning over 30 Facebook users with a wide range of ages to categorize the type of photos shared on their account, which provided  the researchers to identify that photos typically shared on the social network can be categorized as under the following classifications: friend, self, event, scene, family, and animal.

The second part involved five control groups with distinctive relationship types: Partner, relative, colleague , close friend, and general Facebook friend. Above 500 Facebook members were assigned their control group and asked to pace the class of their relationships with a friend they can correlate with their assigned relationship type, with the ratings based on the number of support and closeness they post. “It is necessary remembering that the information we post to our ‘friends’ on Facebook, actually gets viewed by plenty of different categories of people: Partners; family; friends; acquaintances and colleagues; and each group seems to take a variance in viewing the information being shared,” lead researcher Dr. David Houghton stated, referring to a report on the research. “Our research suggests that those who regularly post photos on Social Sites risk damaging real-life relationships. This is due to people, other than very relatives and close friends, can’t seem to relate well to those who regularly share selfie photos.”

To sum-up, here’s what the study establish based on both levels of support and intimacy:

•  Mature users, compare to other relationship types, don’t care much about your pictures than your immature friends do. This is a fact, no matter how often you post pictures on the social network.
•  Female friends tend to care more for your picture posts than your male pal do.
• The only contact who does not given access to your selfies and your family photos are your relatives, partners, and closest friends. Even before, too many selfies undeniably annoys people out, whatever their connections is to you.
• General acquaintances, despite being sequenced under the Facebook category that well minimizes their appearance on your Feeds, care less for you than your colleagues do. It makes sense – you really should not mix your professional with your personal life, otherwise (unless you work with your pal – it could be exception).
• Apparently, over-sharing photos may ignite jealousy: Close friends and partners who post photos of their other friends experience lesser levels of intimacy.

Does these rings any bell to you? To avoid unwarranted unfriending, try utilizing Facebook’s friend list feature, like, at this moment. In that way, the next time you post an album of butt-naked poll dipping party, you know how to limit access to your significant other, your next of relatives, and your in-crowd of friends (you have an idea, those friends who can compose your biography for you).

Finally, be sensitive to your Facebook friends – don’t torment your close friends with too many pictures of you and your other kin. Considerably spare them the torture of seeing your canoodling with your beau every frickin’ day and keep that for your private pleasure. If you really need to, limit your post to one picture… okay make it two. Having said that, if the photos you’re about to share are intentionally for people like partner in life or the kins you hang out with on a usual basis, choose to show them the photos in person rather than uploading them on your Facebook or other social sites.

There’s nothing more disgusting than this scenario:

You: Hey, did you see that gorgeous photo I shared on my FB?

Significant Other Who doesn’t give a damn: No. Why don’t you just show me or tell me about it now?

You: But… I already shared it! Just check it out on Facebook.

Significant Other Who doesn’t give a damn: Bummer…urghhh.. do I have to?

And oh, for the love of social media and all your online-friends, please spare us from too many selfies – save them for Sundays.