Facebook can be a source of happiness if you are proactively managing how you're using it. In my case, it's the way that friends who I've stayed out of touch with can contact me out of the blue and ask me out to drinks because they're in the city. I post occasionally to my feed, but don't really spend much time reading what others are posting except to trade jokes/insults...thus limiting the time in which it seems my life is less fun than others'.
But by default, Facebook's algorithm can only make you unhappy if you're a passive user. The edge algorithm means you see the posts most liked by other people...virtually guaranteeing that you'll be subjected to a stream of awesome-than-life posts. And if you're a young adult, you also find yourself in the situation in which you're pining after someone and constantly viewing their profiles and liking their posts.
Well, in that case, FB is really going to hit you hard as it will assume you want to see lots of stories of your secret crush. And viewing what that person is doing in the time that you're not present around him/her creates nothing but anxiety.
Hell, you don't even have to be young to experience that.
But by default, Facebook's algorithm can only make you unhappy if you're a passive user. The edge algorithm means you see the posts most liked by other people...virtually guaranteeing that you'll be subjected to a stream of awesome-than-life posts. And if you're a young adult, you also find yourself in the situation in which you're pining after someone and constantly viewing their profiles and liking their posts.
Well, in that case, FB is really going to hit you hard as it will assume you want to see lots of stories of your secret crush. And viewing what that person is doing in the time that you're not present around him/her creates nothing but anxiety.
Hell, you don't even have to be young to experience that.