Does Facebook Make You Feel Sad?
“Jane Doe posted 150 New Photos in the album ‘My Amazing Life’”
Wow… Are these people partying in South Beach every day? Is she really that pretty? Why can’t I go on vacations like that?
Although you may feel like the only one, we have all looked at status updates, posts, pictures and other Facebook activities that have made us feel deprived about our lifestyles.
However, “Everybody has these experiences, finds an illuminating new study from Stanford University, and they tend to exacerbate feelings of loneliness, isolation and dissatisfaction in an already alienating society.
In a series of five experiments, the study— which was inspired by the Facebook envy experience though does not explicitly address it— identified several intersecting psychological factors that underlie the grass-is-greener phenomenon. The first two experiments showed that people consistently underestimate how often other people have negative emotions, while overestimating how often they have positive ones,” according to Time.
According to the study, it was found that “people make systematic errors in perceiving others’ emotional lives, underestimating the extent to which other people suffer negative emotional experiences and sometimes overestimating the extent of others’ positive emotions.”
Basically, we ASSUME wrong about people’s lives and OVERESTIMATE their happines. Facebook is NOT a good tool for determining someone’s happiness, even though it may seem like their lives are perfect. Everyone has a story. Everyone has their problems.
Be happy, because someone has it worse than you 
