Facebook ‘lurking’ is making you miserable and here’s what you can do about it

Facebook 'lurking' is making you miserable and here's what you can do about it. A new study by the University of Copenhagen has revealed that regular use of social media such as Facebook can harm your emotional well-being and overall satisfaction with life. The study found that taking a break from social media will have an overwhelmingly positive impact on your overall wellbeing. But, the study also conceded that taking a break isn't necessarily the best option for everyone. By comparing the two groups, researchers found that taking a break from Facebook has a positive impact on two aspects of wellbeing, rendering our life satisfaction and emotions more positive. Active and passive Facebook use was assessed based on how often participants post status updates or photos, comment on friends' posts, and browse newsfeeds and friends' profiles. You might not have to quit altogether The study also showed that the impact of wellbeing varied in relation to how people use Facebook — with "heavy", "passive" and "envious" Facebook users each reporting different effects. "These findings indicate that it might not be necessary to quit Facebook for good to increase one's well-being. "To make things clear, if one is a heavy Facebook user, one should use Facebook less to increase one's well-being. However, Facebook's negative impact on wellbeing has been well-documented in previous research in recent years.

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LONDON — Another study has proved what we already knew but didn’t want to admit — Facebook ‘lurking’ is making you miserable.

A new study by the University of Copenhagen has revealed that regular use of social media such as Facebook can harm your emotional well-being and overall satisfaction with life. The study also presented a solution — one that many of us might not like.

The study found that taking a break from social media will have an overwhelmingly positive impact on your overall wellbeing. But, the study also conceded that taking a break isn’t necessarily the best option for everyone.

Take a break

The University of Copenhagen conducted a week-long experiment with 1,095 participants in Denmark in late 2015. The participants were put into two groups; one continued to use Facebook as usual, and the other group stopped using Facebook entirely for a week.

By comparing the two groups, researchers found that taking a break from Facebook has a positive impact on two aspects of wellbeing, rendering our life satisfaction and emotions more positive. And, the results showed that this impact was significantly greater for users who “envy others on Facebook”, “passive users” and “heavy Facebook users”.

During a pre-test, participants were characterised based on the ways they used Facebook. “Facebook-related envy” was calculated in participants by asking them to answer questions about how they felt when they were confronted with information about other people’s…

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