The BBC is reporting this week on happiness. One of the theories they are exploring is that of happiness being linked to having friends and family i.e. not being lonely.
Does this therefore add to what I wrote in a previous post about the socially deprived using social networks?
If we need interaction and friendship to be happy, but either don't have many friends or live alone, then it makes sense that we look to social networks for interaction when we are by ourselves.
Friendship has a bigger contribution to happiness than income. The BBC reports that the equivalent income needed to make up for the lack of friendship is £50,000. Other key elements are having meaning in life, a belief in something bigger and having goals to achieve, that you enjoy.
So with such dependency on interaction and friendship for happiness, the social media haters should perhaps use it a bit more and find themselves being a bit happier!
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