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The couple who Facebooks together, stays together?



A new study by a Western Illinois University researcher has found that couples who have more interaction on Facebook are happier in real life.


Professor Christopher Carpenter says users who appear in more photos with their partner and regularly 'tag' each other in status updates report closer romantic relationships.


He also claims that the reverse is true, and less interaction leads to less closeness.




Status update: A new study has found that couples who 'tag' each other in more Facebook photos have closer relationships in real life

This flies in the face of previous research that blamed the site for everything from causing jealousy to making heavy users more disconnected to their partner.


Carpenter is also the author of last year's widely-covered study linking Facebook and narcissism.





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So is Facebook good or bad for relationships?


'I think that Facebook has the potential to be both,' Carpenter told MailOnline .'If people see their partner interacting with others on Facebook, they get jealous. But, if they themselves tag their partner regularly, then they aren't jealous of their partner's interactions with others.'



'If people tag their partner regularly, then they aren't jealous of their partner's interactions with others'

But after quizzing 276 people about relationship histories and social media use with co-author Erin Spottswood of Cornell University, Carpenter also believes that the site has can 'help people get closer' because it allows them to make contact with their significant other 'in small doses.'


He also concluded that the more past relationships the participants had, the more interests they listed in their Facebook profiles - because many of us still have traces of past relationships in our profile.


'We might not see that person anymore, but when we develop a relationship with someone, we take on some of their interests and traits and, in many cases, hang on to them long after we break up,' Carpenter told Science Daily.


Social media: Priscilla Chan (left) and Mark Zuckerberg interact regularly on Facebook, and Mark announced their wedding on his personal timeline

'I began wondering if we ever truly cut ties with someone.'


And post-breakup Facebook stalking remains a really bad idea. 'Since Facebook intensifies closeness, if one continues the interaction, it will be difficult to reduce[it],' he explains.


His method of using Facebook as a virtual reflection of real life follows a University of Cambridge study that predicted sexual orientation, religion, and intelligence by analyzing combination of 'likes' on their Facebook page.

Liking 'The Daily Show', 'science', 'Morgan Freeman's Voice' and 'Curly Fries' indicated that someone was highly intelligent, while 'Clark Griswold,' 'Harley-Davidson' and 'Bret Michaels' were associated with lower IQs.

'Exploring romantic relationships on social networking sites using the self-expansion model' will be published in the July journal issue of Computers in Human Behavior.

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