People who do not spend any time scrolling past their friends’ pictures of kids, food, cats, and political rants are much happier, according to a new survey.
The Happiness Research Institute (which one can only assume is operated by Pharell Williams), divided over 1,000 people in Denmark into two groups – one group used Facebook and the other did not.
After a week, the people in the group not on Facebook were found to be more satisfied with their lives, with 88 percent of them describing themselves as “happy”. That is compared to the 81 percent who were happy from the Facebook-using group.
The non-Facebook group also had 84 percent of people saying they appreciated their lives compared with 75 percent in the other group, and only 12 percent said that they were dissatisfied, compared with 20 percent of those using the Zuckerberg money machine Facebook.
Altogether, researchers concluded that Facebook users are 39 percent more likely to feel less happy than non-users.
Of course those non-Facebook people have no way to post a humble brag about their happiness – and as everyone on Facebook knows, that is really the only reason to be happy anyway.
Take a moment to like Cactus Hugs on Facebook, so we can all be miserable together.
