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Study: Quit Facebook, live happier

Unhappy? Quit Facebook.

While many users of the social media website spend hours compulsively posting filtered pictures and self-promotional anecdotes to their carefully pruned pages, most of their time is spent swiping through their "friend's" equally-as-manicured posts and pictures. And as a result, these same users have a tendency to draw comparisons with these "friends", which then leads to feelings of envy and discontent, according to a new report.

The Happiness Research Institute (seriously), based in Denmark, decided to analyze Facebook's impact on happiness, the results of which were released Tuesday. According to the study, which included 1,095 regular-users, those who quit using the social-networking website for an entire week reported greater feelings of contentment.

For the study, researchers split the volunteers into two groups: half continued to use Facebook regularly for the duration of the week, while the other half abstained.

The results: 81 percent of users reported dissatisfaction with their lives, while 88 percent of non-users reported feelings of greater satisfaction with their lives.

The report also showed 54 percent of users felt stressed, compared with 41 percent of non-users.

Non-users reportedly enjoyed their day-to-day lives more, exhibited fewer instances of anger, but greater instances of enthusiasm. They also reported increased concentration and social activity, and a greater satisfaction with said social activity.

Users, however, reported feelings of envy toward their "friend's" experiences, happiness and success.

In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his team is working on a variation of a "dislike" button to pair with the iconic "like" button, which is found at the bottom of every user-post.

That should help.