It discovered that those who are more obsessed with social media are more likely to use the sites for cruel and callous purposes. This includes conflict with other users due to social media use and relapsing when trying to ditch social networking sites. The social media interactions the researchers quizzed the participants on included admiration, passivity, prosocial interactions, sexual relationships, sociability and negative social potency. However, for Facebook, the only behaviour positively correlated with problematic Facebook use was negative social potency. Negative social potency has previously been linked to the so-called 'Dark Triad' of personality traits.

Source: Daily Mail July 21, 2020 10:33 UTC