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Social media more tempting than sex, study says

What's harder to resist: a night in bed with your significant other or the unquenchable need to look at your friends' photos?For most people, it's the latter. In yet another study, researchers from Chicago University monitored 205 people's daily desires for a full week. Turns out that folks were 10 times more likely to give into their urges to check Twitter and Facebook than to have sex or spend

What's harder to resist: a night in bed with your significant other or the unquenchable need to look at your friends' photos?

For most people, it's the latter. In yet another study, researchers from Chicago University monitored 205 people's daily desires for a full week. Turns out that folks were 10 times more likely to give into their urges to check Twitter and Facebook than to have sex or spend money.

On TODAY Friday, Hoda was surprised, although she admitted earlier in the show that sometimes you just don't feel like trying to "get all the way to Poughkeepsie."

KLG was equally flummoxed. "This I do not understand," she said, "but I don't go on Facebook."

Hopefully this information won't lead to a shortage of baby pictures to post online, because wouldn't that would be a horrible paradox?

Julieanne Smolinski is a TODAY.com contributor who "likes" this study.

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