Does Social Networking Affect Our

Happiness?Jeanette Kats

WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN?

WHY?

SO MANY NETWORKS!

…SO MUCH TIME?

Curiosity or Obsession?

Internet a

ddiction ca

n

blur the lin

e between

reality and th

e virtual

world

Can it go too far?

Couple in South Korea allowed their baby to starve to death

Woman in South Korea killed her child http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/

2011/08/08/social-media-the-pursuit-of-happiness/

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

UNEMPLOYMENTSOCIAL

NETWORKING

From 2002 to 2006, the unemployment rate went from 6% to 8.5% and stays high at 8.2%

On Average In One Year…

We’ll share 415 pieces of content on Facebook

We’ll spend an average of about 23 minutes a day on Twitter

We’ll tweet a total of around 15,795 tweets

We’ll check in 563 times on Foursquare

We’ll upload 196 hours of video on YouTubehttp://thesocialskinny.com/100-more-social-media-statistics-for-2012/

More Users Than Ever!!!!!

http://newsroom.fb.com/content/default.aspx?NewsAreaId=22

Facebook:845,000,000

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-active-total-users_b17655

Twitter:100,000,000

Habbo:200,000,000

http://www.sulake.com/habbo/index.html?navi=2.1

http://www.fastcompany.com/1813364/inside-facebook-si-ipo-filing-845-million-users-37-billion-in-revenues-in-2011

Three Degrees

Happiness can be passed on and received by up to three degrees

Social Networking=$=

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/pl_brown_karma

Giving makes people happy!

Social Networking=Dopamine?

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/08/08/social-media-the-pursuit-of-happiness

Social Networking mimics dopamine-Giving us satisfaction through seeking information

IT’S ALL ABOUT BALANCE

Social networking CAN produce happiness If it isn’t abused