A recent study reveals that the more people use Facebook, the more they tend to believe that others are happy and having good lives.
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The participants were asked how much they agreed or disagreed with statements such as "Life is fair" and "many of my friends have a better life than me".
They then described their Facebook activity including their number of "friends" and the proportion of them they actually knew.
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After allowing for gender, religiosity and whether people were single or attached, the study found that "the more hours people spent on Facebook, the stronger was their agreement that others were happier".his was particularly true of Facebook users who stockpiled "friends" they did not actually know.
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Conversely, the study found that people who spent more time actually socialising with friends in the flesh were less likely to feel they had been handed life's short straw.
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"Looking at happy pictures of others on Facebook gives people an impression that others are 'always' happy and having good lives," the Daily Mail quoted Chou as saying.
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