San Francisco (CNN Business) Leaving Facebook may be good for your emotional well being, but you could be less informed about current events. Facebook FB A new report from researchers at New York University and Stanford University looked at what happened to people who deactivated their accounts. The researchers paid people $102 to turn-off theiraccounts for four weeks. The Facebook-free people reported being happier while not using the site, being less active online, and using other social-media sites less. Once the study was over, the majority chose to reactivate their Facebook accounts, though most continued to use the social network less.

Source: CNN February 01, 2019 02:00 UTC