Apparently, we’re all still on Facebook just to JUDGE our friends

Sometimes we go on Facebook and blindly scroll through our feed.

By now, a lot of our Facebook friends are either people who were in our transition year class in secondary school, or our mum's aunt's best friend.

Yes, we have a real friends on there too, but how often do you commincate with them solely through the site?

Well, according to new research, we're all on Facebook just to judge each other.

Linguistics lecturers Philip Seargeant and Caroline Tagg wanted to inviestigate “incidents where online communication has gone awry – where people have accidentally given offence, or been offended by what other people have written or shared”.

They surveryed 100 FB users and found that the majority of people continue to use the site even though it often annoys them.

However, instead of confronting the users that are annoying you, many preferred to “silently watch them – and perhaps even take pleasure from judging them”. Eeek!

The study, which was published in The Conversationist, saw that as well as being provoked by extremist or ill-informed views (homophobia, racism, etc), people are also annoyed by the users who share their daily routines or constantly self-promote themselves.

The researchers found that many Facebook users simply don't de-friend an annoying person because it would complicate real-life friendships.

“None of the people in the study, however, said that they’d reduced their use of Facebook because of the frequent offence they experienced from using it,” said Philip and Caroline.

“Logging onto Facebook gives you the chance to be indignantly offended (or maybe just mildly piqued) by other people’s ill-informed views and idiosyncratic behaviour.

"And there’s a surprising amount of pleasure in that,” they concluded.