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Unbelievable right? Studies show that social media sites such as Facebook trigger the release of hormone oxytocin. Guess what other action triggers this hormone? Cuddling! Dr. Paul J Zak, a professor at Claremont Graduate University, performed a series of blood tests on people before and after they used Facebook. And the results show that after using Facebook, there was an increase of the hoormone oxytocin in their blood stream.

This is a pretty cool find; maybe this is why people are so addicted to Facebook. His studies also show that people with higher oxytocin levels are more likely to donate to charity and respond positively to the public. Which basically means that after being on Facebook for quite a while, you will become a nicer and more charitable person.

I like the sound of that. Maybe this study here will be able to change some parent’s minds about not letting their kids get a Facebook!

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wow that is ridiculous. cannot believe people release the same hormone while being on facebook/twitter as when they are cuddling. i guess that is why some people are really addicted to these social networkings
thanks for sharing!


Very interesting findings! How knew Facebook and Twitter could do this?! Thanks for sharing!


what?! this is crazy. 


WHOA!! This is indeed WHACK!!
The same thing for all three of them!!
Thank you for sharing


wtff....WTF!?!?!? thsi is way too wack

i relaly hope that in the future....ppl will still cuddle and not just go on fb T_T lolll
thanks for sharing :D!


That’s so odd! Really a shock. Thanks for sharing. 


haha,.LOL,. that’s cool,.! very interesting. wonder what hormone ningin releases in humans XD


Donating to charity is good and whatnot, but I’m so confused on how they managed to do that. @_@


Um really? o__o This is quite surprising but interesting. 


WOW. thats an interesting study indeed O.O become nicer and more charitable? hmm XD lol thanks for sharing! 


LMAO cuddling, facebook and twitter are ALL interconnected.......not weird at all.
Thank you for sharing!



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