Logging off from Facebook can contribute to more happiness, according to a Danish study on users of the social networking site.

The findings were based on a week-long survey of 1,095 Facebook users, who were divided into two groups, Meik Wiking, chief executive of The Happines Research Institute said on Wednesday.

“One half would continue to use Facebook as normal, that was our control group, and the other half were asked not to log on to Facebook for a week,” he told newsmen.

A week later, the two groups were assessed again and there was an increase in the average happiness rating among those who took a break from Facebook.

On a 10-point scale, their average increased 0.5 points – rising from 7.56 to 8.12 points, while the group that continued to use Facebook showed only a marginal change, the report said.

“The finding, I was most surprised about was how much life satisfaction increased in our treatment group, the people who had a break from Facebook,” Wiking said.

The researchers had not been sure they would be able to detect any effect at all in such a short period of a week, he added.

The group, who had a break from Facebook were also less stressed, more decisive and felt “more present in the moment,” the report said.

The survey was conducted at the end of October, and comprised Danish Facebook users, aged from 17 to their 70s.

“Ironically, we recruited people via Facebook,” Wiking said.

About 10-15 per cent of the users in the group that took a break, conceded after the survey was completed that they had actually logged on to Facebook.

Wiking, who signed up as well and was randomly put in the treatment group, said he was forced to drop out as he had to check an address to a party that was posted on Facebook.

He said the think tank plans a follow-up, including tracking the groups to see if there was a long-term effect and if users would return to previous Facebook behaviour.

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Op r u talkn vocally or lyrically? A lot of dem can do neither. U wld tnk wt all d money dey claim 2 b getting in their songs, dey wld get singing lessons 4rm voice coaches lyk gogo majin. d reason most of their songs appeal 2 pple is because 1. dey use gud producers, mixers, sound engineers & vocal enhancement apps (autotune) 2. Most nigerians lack gud taste in music. dey only follow wts trending & wt dey can dance 2. I was flabbergasted when i discovered dt a whole p square cldnt perform wt a band onstage @ d 2014 glo/CAF awards. It was embarrassing! Vocally only a few of dem eg (largely female) r ok (suprisingly olamide is quite good vocally). Their performance @ shows r usually just exaggerated versions of karaoke & "lip sync battles". It goes 2 $hit if d DJ or sound crew messes up unlyk foreign acts (a prime example is adele's performance @ d 2016 grammys; even wt sound problems, her vocals were clearly distinguishable & as usual out of dis world). Then their lyrics... highly super hyper F. U. C. K. E. D. I can count d number of 9ja songs wt nyc lyrics i've heard dis yr on 1 hand. Have u noticed dt on music channels lyk MTV base, sound city, trace etc, dey hardly play 9ja songs on segments lyk baseline, lyrics 2 go, lyricist's lounge etc (where dey write d lyrics of songs so dt viewers can sing along)? When dey do eventually play a 9ja song & i read d lyrics, i feel ashamed. Na so so "eh eh eh", "ah ah ah" & "yea yea yea" go constitute half of d song. D rest r usually ret*rded, meaningless, weak-minded words dt make neither head nor tail. D savn grace is usually d instrumentals & sometyms d chorus. u tnk am kidn? Take 4 example, pepenazi's "illegal"- take out olamide's part & wt u hv is a wack piece of crap. Imagine "we r supportn mayweather simply because dt dy say its illegal" "dere shall b showers of blessn; showers of blessn rain on me. iya e". where's d sense in dt? d fact dt a musician wnts 2 go commercial dsnt mean dt he has 2 say dumb $hit. Even faze's "kolomental" ( a club banger in its tym) had nyc lyrics. It's lyk nwadays, 9ja artistes put in d xtra effort 2 sound stewpid. Dey sing & 1 concludes dt dey dnt write lyrics; dt dey just get high, step in2 d recordn booth & sing d dumbest thing dt entas their mind. Dey hardly ever make sense wt their lyrics. As long as it has a nyc beat, anytn goes. Tell me, wt message did korede bello's "mungo park" pass except dt he's a lyrically inept twit who urgently needs a gud songwriter 2 prevent his budding career 4rm wiltn?