&gt; Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you&#x27;re fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you.<p>&gt; That said, this study doesn&#x27;t surprise me. In terms of public posts everyone projects their &quot;best life&quot;, so you&#x27;re browsing through a catalogue of amazing experiences while you sit at home feeling a little fat.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m not sure what the answer to that is.<p>I&#x27;m not on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. (and I&#x27;m probably one of a very small minority who has <i>never</i> had accounts) and I wouldn&#x27;t consider myself &quot;enlightened.&quot;<p>I think &quot;the answer&quot; is to reflect on what it is that adds value to your life and what subtracts value from your life.<p>If your personal use of social media is focused on activities that you conclude are beneficial, there&#x27;s no reason you should stop using it. On the other hand, if your use of social media is making you less happy, you should treat it the same way you&#x27;d logically treat anything else that makes you less happy.<p>Unfortunately, as these studies demonstrate, a lot of the people using social media aren&#x27;t happier for it, and more problematically, many clearly aren&#x27;t reflecting on that.