Study: Dropping Facebook makes people happier

Not only feel better about lives but increased real social interaction

A new study from Denmark finds that people are happier when they stay away from the social media site Facebook, which distorts reality and provides a false perception of what others are accomplishing in their lives.

The study by the Happiness Research Institute formed a control group of Danish Facebook users who continued visiting the site and a study group that “took a break” from it.

“We asked both groups what moods they had experienced that day. People who had taken a break from Facebook felt happier and were less sad and lonely,” the study concluded. “After one week without Facebook the treatment group experienced an increase in their social activity – and an increase in their satisfaction with their social life.”

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For those who gave up Facebook for a week, 88 percent said they were happy, compared to 81 percent of those who continued using social media. Forty-one percent said they were worried, compared to 54 percent of those who continued to be on Facebook. And 12 percent were angry, compared to 20 percent in the control group.

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