Delete your account: leaving Facebook can make you happier, study finds

New study from Stanford and NYU finds logging off causes 'small but significant improvements in wellbeing'

Despite all the scandals of the past year, here we are, still on Facebook, a couple of billion of us spending about an hour a day in its iron grip. Now a new study suggests it's making us feel bad.

That's in part because we may be addicted. Want to feel better? Delete Facebook. As some experts have said, the system of rewards set up by Facebook and other social media platforms is akin to gambling or substance abuse cravings. Sean Parker, an early Facebook executive, explained that the thought process behind driving user engagement is akin to delivering "a little dopamine hit".