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"  Well, THIS makes sense. Although it might be easy to write off your Facebook stalking habit as a symptom of &amp;quot;the Youngs with their Fancy Machines,&amp;quot; it actually has more to do with your attachment style than it does with modern times. (Although, sure, having no Twitter in the horse and buggy olden times was probably more healthy for relationships, but everyone died when they were like thirty back then anyway. We win!) A study reported on Slate has linked obsessive social media monitoring of a significant other to &amp;quot;preoccupied&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;fearful&amp;quot; partners. Researchers from Wittenberg University, Ohio State University, and the University of Doy, We Basically Knew This Already, conducted a study of just under 500 college kids from an unnamed Midwestern college in which they were asked to answer how much they monitored their boo&amp;#039;s social media pages and how secure they actually feel in the relationship \u2014 even if there&amp;#039;s not a shred of proof that your boyfriend might be cheating on you and it&amp;#039;s all in your wack-ass head. (Been there.) Unsurprisingly, the two were correlated... as in, if you think your boyfriend&amp;#039;s gonna dump you any second, of course you&amp;#039;re checking his Twitter to make sure it doesn&amp;#039;t read Can&amp;#039;t wait to dump Jennifer LOLOLOL who wants nachos? Follow Anna on Twitter. Image via New Line Cinema "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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