Quitting social media can make you happier, a recent study suggests.

No one needs to remind you that social media can be destructive unless you use it wisely.

However, you may not realize that your unconscious bad habits when using it are damaging. They may lead you to have an unhealthy involvement with it.

Research suggests that social media makes people too dependent on the internet. Studies and surveys also reveal that those who made the decision to avoid it are much happier than their peers.

Studies Find That Those Who Quit Social Media Are Much Happier

Social media, undoubtedly, has strengths when you use it in an appropriate, balanced manner. These studies prove that taking time off Facebook and other platforms will benefit you more than you may believe.

# 1. A study by the Happiness Research Institute found that people who avoided social media for just a week were in a much better mood than before because they were present and aware. It involved two groups of people. Each group rated their lives on scales of one to ten. One group avoided social media for a week, while the other went on as usual. Those who quit social media for a week had their contentment levels rise from 7.12/10 to 8.12/10. The people that used it, as usual, had their happiness levels decrease from  7.67/10 to 7.56/10.

#2. Another study by the Pew Research Center found that people depended on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for news. They relied on them more than newspapers or television.  Eventually, it made them more insular and less open-minded.

#3. According to researchers Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga and Rosamund F Lewis, frequent use of social media results in poor psychological and cognitive functioning. They explored the relationship between the use of social sites and poor mental health, using high school students in Ottawa as samples. The students who reflected that they had poor mental health were more likely to have used social media platforms.

#4. Findings published in the Guildford Press Periodicals showed links between frequent Facebook use and depression. Researchers correlated Facebook logins with depressive symptoms. Participants who used it frequently showed more signs of depression than those who logged in less often.

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