Could Facebook Habit Make You Less Happy?
Aug-15-2013

Despite all the virtual socializing and "liking" involved, using Facebook is actually associated with a decline in happiness, according to a small new study.

"On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection," lead author Ethan Kross, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, said in a university news release.

"But rather than enhance well-being, we found that Facebook use predicts the opposite result -- it undermines it," Kross said.

And, added study co-author John Jonides, "This is a result of critical importance because it goes to the very heart of the influence that social networks may have on people's lives." Jonides is a cognitive neuroscientist at the university.

The study of 82 young adult Facebook users found that the more they used Facebook over a given time, the more their happiness and life satisfaction levels declined. In contrast, face-to-face interactions with others led participants to feel better over time.

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