The soppy details about the relationship that some couples post on Facebook may actually be strengthening their marital bond, says a new study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). It has found that people who post about their relationship on Facebook are more satisfied and secure in their marriages than those who do not.
It may seem obvious that people who are happy in their relationships will post about them more often, but now there is scientific evidence of the connection - and a possible answer to the argument that they’re overcompensating or just looking for a self-esteem boost, Huffington Post reported.
The research team, led by laura R Saslow a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medicine at UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, conducted three experiments among married Facebook users over the age of 18.
The first experiment showed that those who often posted a picture of themselves and their spouse as their Facebook profile picture were more likely to report being happy in their relationship.
The second experiment indicated that participants who reported higher levels of marital satisfaction and closeness with their partner were much more likely to have posted a profile picture that featured their spouse in the last year.
The third experiment found that participants were more likely to post information about their relationship on Facebook on days when they were feeling particularly satisfied with their marriage.
Men mature at 43, women at 32
The age that men mature completely is 43, which is 11 years after women, a research commissioned by Nickelodeon UK has found. Women were regarded as being mature at the age of 32. Men were nearly twice as likely as women to describe themselves as immature. Also, females were twice as likely as men to feel that they were the “grown up” in a relationship. A third had broken up with a man they thought was too immature. Men whose mothers still did their washing or cooked them meals rated low in the maturity stakes.