Positive Facebook comments make you as happy as having a baby!

Positive Facebook comments make you as happy as having a baby!

Just 60 comments from close friends in a month -- two comments per day -- can impact your feelings of well-being and satisfaction with life.

The findings run counter to many previous studies based on user surveys, which often have shown that time spent on social mediais associated with a greater likelihood of loneliness and depression. “You’re left to wonder — is it that unhappy people are using social media, or is social media affecting happiness?” Kraut said.
The new study was able to resolve this “chicken-or-egg” dilemma by using Facebook logs to examine counts of participants’ actual Facebook activity over a period of months. The new findings suggests that people who are feeling down may indeed spend more time on social media, but they choose to do so because they have learned it makes them feel better, Burke said. “They’re reminded of the people they care about in their lives,” Burke noted.

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