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)

你是否觉得自己的生活比较郁闷？也许，让你自己迅速快乐起来一个方法，就是删掉你的社交网络账户。

《每日邮报》报道，新研究发现，人们越是经常玩社交网站，越是会认为别人过得比自己好。

美国犹他河谷大学开展的这项研究发现，社交网站用户在自己的页面上填充的一张张精心挑选的带着快乐笑容的照片，渐渐地会向别的用户传递一种负面的信息，会让人对他人的生活产生嫉妒心理。

那些关注了一堆自己根本不认识的“朋友”的社交网站用户，更是如此。

使用社交网站时间越长的人，越会坚定地认同“生活是不公平的”这种说法。