Feeling down about your life? One quick way to cheer yourself up may be to delete your accounts on social networking sites, Daily Mail reported.

New research indicates that the more people use the social networking website, the more they will believe that others are much happier.

The study by Utah Valley University found that the carefully-chosen pictures of smiling, cheerful faces which social networking website users tend to plaster over their pages cumulatively convey a debilitating message to others. It can make people jealous of each others' lives.

This was particularly true of social networking website users who stockpiled "friends" they did not actually know.

Those who had used social networking website for longer were also significantly likely to agree with the statement that "life is unfair."

(China.org.cn January 28, 2012)

你是否覺得自己的生活比較郁悶？也許，讓你自己迅速快樂起來一個方法，就是刪掉你的社交網絡賬戶。

《每日郵報》報道，新研究發現，人們越是經常玩社交網站，越是會認為別人過得比自己好。

美國猶他河谷大學開展的這項研究發現，社交網站用戶在自己的頁面上填充的一張張精心挑選的帶著快樂笑容的照片，漸漸地會向別的用戶傳遞一種負面的信息，會讓人對他人的生活產生嫉妒心理。

那些關注了一堆自己根本不認識的“朋友”的社交網站用戶，更是如此。

使用社交網站時間越長的人，越會堅定地認同“生活是不公平的”這種說法。