Is Twitter Making Us Unhappy?

Do you have a Twitter account? If yes, perhaps you feel so unhappy when using Twitter.

Twitter is a social network that share information very quickly. Every second, thousands of the latest chirp appears in the timeline. Information overload will hover in your head.

But unlike before, the happiness level of Twitter users has decreased. Researchers from the University of Vermont using social media service Twitter to learn about a person's happiness, through the analysis of trillions of words used in millions of chirp (tweets).

Researchers analyzed more than 46 trillion words of the tweets of 63 million people since January 2009. Each word gives an emotional level with a scale value of 1 to 9, which means the value of 9 indicates the happier.

After all the words given ranking, researchers looked for patterns related to time, date or location of the tweets is currently posted.

The results indicate that happiness has been in decline since April 2009. In addition, the people are happier on weekends and less happy at the beginning of the week.

Researchers found that twitter users are happier at night than the morning. Researchers also noted a decrease in happiness associated with several events, such as the tsunami in Japan.

Do you agree?

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Three Odd Ways to Deal with Stress

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. (Kelly Clarkson)

Many ways you can do to deal with stress, ranging from yoga, eating chocolate, sleeping, and other strange things. Here are three odd ways to deal with stress, that you did not know before.

1. Body brushing
Rubbing the body with a dry brush to stimulate the nerves in the skin. This stimulation activates parasmatik system that can make a person feel so calm, according to Steelsmith, author of "Natural Choices for Women's Health'; this stimulates the lymph nodes, which then carry the body's cells are the smallest into the bloodstream. In the end, the cells are delivered into the liver for detoxification.

2. Dark places
According to Steelsmith, frequent exposure to light more than it should be able to adversely affect one's health. The production of melatonin - the hormone that makes sleeping soundly, so decreases in the body when you sleep with the lights on. Lack of sleep can make people hard to cope with everyday problems, often experience stress and affect the immune system.

3. Jaw massage
Stress often affects a person's emotions. When you feel stressed, your body - especially the jaw, become 'tight'. Massaging the jaw area can help release the muscles and reduce stress. If you are under stress, which was in the jaw muscles (masseter, pterygoid and temporalis) will contract, causing headaches and other pain.

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If You wanna be Happy, You gotta have Friends

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. (Muhammad Ali)

Social interactions with friends may enhance positive life in the health field, such as stopping smoking, the desire to exercise, or eat the healthy foods. A close friend which will be a reminder to you to live healthier lives. Based on research in Carstensen suggested that the three companions are the perfect number, they will help each other if one in a state of crisis and 'drop'. However, less than three will most likely make sense of loneliness and depression.
 
"Small friendship but close will make more positive mental health," said Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D., director of the Stanford Center in California. A close friend will become a mirror of who you, in fact, at once become a process of achieving what exactly you're going in life and what exactly you want.

Not just to share the happy moment, but a friend can be a panacea that can strengthen the body when suffer from breast cancer. In a study involving 3,000 women who are battling the breast cancer, those who do not have a close friend die  sooner than women who have friends. Here, we see how the support of friends into the amplifier and the spirit to fight the disease most feared by women.

So, if you want to stay healthy and happy, you gotta have friends!

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Adriana Lima's Slim Secrets: Jump Rope Workout

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. (Nora Ephron)

It's not easy for women to return slim as before pregnancy. Adriana Lima is one of the women who tried to return to the original body. As we know, Adriana Lima known as a Victoria's Secret model who has a body and face are stunning.

I do not try too hard to lose weight quickly, because I want to give exclusive breastfeeding. I give time and eat well and healthy, she said.

Lima does have a personal trainer to shape his body, but the main exercise of this brunette is jump rope workout. Adriana does the exercises every day.

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Why Facebook Can Cause Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Maybe you've read about Borderline personality disorder (BPD) in this blog. This time I will share about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). One of the personality disorders that we do not realize. And do you know one of the triggers: Facebook. Oh, no!

FYI, Facebook or Twitter and similar social-networking sites can lead to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). According to Dr. Pam Spurr, an expert in behavioral, social-networking sites such as Facebook could actually make a person exposed to diseases that are classified as psychiatric disorders. Habits or routines that often play up even if only just to see, check, or a status update can make you feel nervous and want to continue to do so.

What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
OCD is an anxiety disorder. The individuals who suffer from this condition often plagued with thoughts. The sufferer also engages in behaviors that are considered to be repetitive.

Once the behaviors have been performed, it acts like a temporary form of relief. If the behaviors are not performed, anxiety may be experienced. There are people that will engage in the repetitive behaviors in order to cope with the thoughts that are experienced.

OCD in different conditions also experienced by famous people such as Katy Perry, Megan Fox, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba and Charlize Theron.

While this does not cover all the symptoms that may be experienced by sufferers, they are the most common symptoms. If you or someone you know has obsessive compulsive disorder, it is important to treat the condition under the care of a doctor.

Pam Spurr said, a way to prevent OCD is to calm the mind, change the mindset and lifestyle. Pam adds, someone who is generally a quieter way of thinking can solve this problem. To protect them from the possibility of this disease, Pam recommends everyone should limit the amount of their time to play Facebook and, Twitter!

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