Author Zoe Strimpel says social media site Facebook bombards singletons with images of ‘perfect’ weddings and babies which can cause jealousy.
She said: ‘What [Facebook] does is it enhances the sense that your life is lacking and specifically, when you are single, you focus in on all those pictures of perfect weddings, perfect babies, perfect couples.
During a lecture at Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas, Zoe said it was vital that women either go cold turkey and stop using Facebook completely or cut down on the amount of hours they spend online.
Ms Strimpel, who wrote ‘Man Diet: One Woman’s Quest to End Bad Romance’, also believes that women spend far too much time online between checking up on friends and scouting for potential dates.
Zoe says that images of weddings and babies can upset upset single women
“You become addicted to information that you might not need to know about, say, Joe the musician who you drunkenly snogged at a house warming, but who turns out has a girlfriend.
“Thanks to Facebook you may know his mother’s name, the details of his last holiday, the names of his exes, who he is hanging around with.
“This is not healthy or helpful information, plus it gives the impression that these men are more in your life than they actually are, which is quite corrosive.
“There’s plenty of psychology that supports taking a break from social media”.
Do you agree with Zoe’s controversial comments, is Facebook detrimental to our health?
