Social Sharing Makes Events Seem More Real, Says Study
The study found that 70 percent of social sharing takes place via texting, phone calls, Facebook or Twitter.
A new study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior investigated the widespread practice of sharing personal news and events via social media and smartphones.
The study looked at which types of media and platforms people chose for sharing positive and negative personal information, and how they felt after sharing news in mediated environments.
Three-hundred undergraduate students at UW-Madison participated in the study, which was conducted by graduate students Mina Choi and Catalina Toma.
Participants kept a diary of how sharing information about a particular event affected their emotions and compared it to the feelings they experienced during the event itself.
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