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Facebook may be making you hate life, study says

(MCT) — LOS ANGELES — Are you jealous of everyone you know? If so, it might be time to take a break from Facebook.

Scrolling through photos of other people’s vacations, joyful family moments and awesome nights out may be a threat to your sense of personal happiness, say a team of German researchers in a new study titled “Envy on Facebook: A hidden threat to users’ life satisfaction?”

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