Facebook may be making you unhappy: study

November 12, 2015 14:23

People who are on Facebook are more likely to be unhappy and have low life satisfaction than those who do not use the social networking site, according to a new study.

The Happiness Research Institute conducted an experiment on 1,095 people in Denmark. Half of the participants were asked to refrain from using Facebook for one week, while the control group continued their social media activities as usual.

At the end of the week, the participants were asked to evaluate their life satisfaction on a scale of one to ten both before and after the one-week experiment.

The researchers found a significantly higher level of life satisfaction among those who did not visit Facebook.

The control group gave an average 7.67 ranking to their life satisfaction before the experiment. By the end of the week, that had barely changed to 7.75.

However, the other group saw life satisfaction shoot up from 7.56 to 8.12 after their Facebook-free week, the Local reported.

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