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Lately, we've been hearing a lot about the pitfalls of social media, but now, science has confirmed it: staying away from the "reality distorting" Facebook is likely to increase your happiness. 

A study carried out in Denmark has revealed that even as little as a week away from the social networking site could increase your satisfaction in life and significantly reduce stress. 

Researchers from the Danish Happiness Research Institute (yep, that's actually a place) divided a group of 1,095 people, aged between 16-76, into two groups. 

One group was given their usual access to the site, and the other shut down their profiles for a week. 

“Facebook is a constant bombardment of everyone else’s great news, but many of us look out of the window and see grey skies and rain,” Meik Wiking, CEO of the Institute, tells The Guardian. 

“This makes the Facebook world, where everyone’s showing their best side, seem even more distortedly bright by contrast, so we wanted to see what happened when users took a break.”

Before and after the experiment took place, the participants were asked to rate their life satisfaction out of ten. They also had to comment on how active their social lives were, how good their day-to-day concentration was and if they compared themselves to others.

The resulting study, The Facebook Experiment: Does social media affect the quality of our lives? revealed that those who abstained from the social network had a higher life appreciation, a richer social life and fewer difficulties when concentrating. 

Sophie Anne Dornoy, 35, took part in the study and said: “My to-do list was getting done faster than normal as I spent my time more productively. I also felt a sort of calmness from not being confronted by Facebook all the time.”

“It felt good to know that the world doesn’t end without Facebook and that people are still able to reach you,” she says.

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Belfast bus driver Paul Doyle has been praised by thousands for his kindness to a homeless man after a student who was riding his bus posted about his caring act on Facebook.

AnnaMarie McDaniel wrote a post on the Translink Facebook page. She described  how the driver stopped the bus beside a homeless man who was soaked in the rain. 

On the bus home from university there, absolutely miserable wet and cold night. I get the same bus every Tuesday and…

Posted by AnnaMarie McDaniel on Tuesday, 10 November 2015

The driver handed him a plastic bag with a winter coat that he had bought for him.

By this afternoon more than 66,000 people had liked the post. There were also close to 2,000 comments that praised Paul and thanked him for making their day. 

Michael Dornan, a representative for the Unite union, told Belfast Live:

"Paul is a very laid-back, reserved and quiet person. He told me he had repeatedly seen this young man standing in terrible conditions with no coat and his clothes were very thin.

This particular day he just said he thought he would try and help and look after him. He put it in a bag with some food. The young lad got very emotional and broke down.” 

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He added that Paul is a very humble individual and he is taken aback by the amount of people who have responded to his generosity.

This is however not the first time Metro drivers have made the effort to help their local community.

"We as a Union intend to do something on the run-up to Christmas for homeless people, to help them in some way.

They seem to be the forgotten people of Belfast, especially coming up to Christmas."

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Yesterday an incredibly, moving story was doing the rounds on the internet.

The reason it had managed to attract such attention so quickly, was largely due to the fact that Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston was involved. 

The story about Jennifer Aniston meeting a homeless teenage mother in Vancouver appeared on Facebook and has gathered over half a million likes since.

The post also has over 46,000 shares currently. 

"I was day tripping to Vancouver from Seattle and stopped in for lunch at a little cafe. From my window I saw a young…

Posted by Jennifer Aniston on Tuesday, 10 November 2015

The problem is that this charming story about Jen’s very kind act is not actually a real story.

It was actually posted to a Reddit thread five years ago. The thread was titled, "What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no one knows about?" The post was made by a user who has since deleted their profile. 

The majority of the story is the same, but some parts are slightly different. 

Comment from discussion What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no one knows about?.

Since the Facebook page that posted the story is a just a fan account (the actress doesn't have an official page), people are almost certain that Jen is not the author of the very sweet story that was originally posted online. 

Sorry, Jennifer Aniston fans. 

The post had gathered so much attention that reps for Jen told The Huffington Post that she had nothing to do with the story:

"She does not participate in social media so basically what you see on fan pages is taken from articles they have seen on her.  This particular story we have no idea where it came from and has nothing to do with Jennifer." 

We imagine that Jen is probably happy her fans think so highly of her, but this whole story is also just a bit bizarre. 

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Willow Smith turned 15 over the weekend, and her famous dad couldn't resist a little Facebook shout-out.

As the daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow has lived her whole life in the spotlight, but her dad's message yesterday shows that underneath it all she's just a normal teen.

"Happy Birthday, my Bean. 15 years old today!!" the actor wrote on his personal page. 

Happy Birthday, my Bean. 15 years old today!! When you were born it took about 2 seconds to realize that I was willing…

Posted by Will Smith on Saturday, 31 October 2015

"When you were born it took about 2 seconds to realise that I was willing to die for you.

Thank you for correcting my heart – and teaching me how to love without constriction or condition." The message was accompanied by a gorgeous throwback snap of Will and little Willow.

Will is clearly a fan of celebrating birthdays via Facebook – back in September he did some "birthday math" for his wife of 15 years:

This was taken at your mom's house 20 years ago. That's a long time ago!!! So I decided to do some math… I have sung…

Posted by Will Smith on Friday, 18 September 2015

Having found fame aged just 11 with her song Whip My Hair, Willow became something of a child star, but she has bowed out of the limelight more in recent years.

"She’s really just developing herself… She’s taking her time to develop her skills, so when she feels like people are ready to know the real Willow, then she will make a comeback," her dad said recently.

Back in 2012, Will came under fire for revealing his son had asked for emancipation from his parents for his 15th birthday.

However in a later interview on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Will insisted his comments had been a "joke," adding, "My baby boy, he's never leaving me, ever. No emancipation for the Smith kids."

As for Jaden, he joked that his dad wouldn't allow him to move out until "'I have a movie that's bigger than one of his movies."

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Facebook has heard our plea, and its finally giving in.

Just last month the social media giant launched Facebook Responses, meaning we can now do more than just 'like' a post.

And now Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed plans to make another smart change to how we use Facebook, by removing the annoying "Other" inbox.

If you've ever received a message from someone with whom you share no mutual friends, it's most likely gone to the elusive Other folder. That wouldn't be much of an issue except the folder is not accessible via the Facebook app, and we don't get a notification if a new message arrives there.

The result? You've no doubt missed out on at least one important message, invite, or even a 'hey, last night was fun' from the guy you kissed once and thought you had never heard from again.

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With the new and improved update, any messages from strangers will appear as a "message request" notification which you can then confirm or deny. You'll be able to read the message before deciding whether to accept and let the sender know you've seen it.

"We truly want to make Messenger the place where you can find and privately connect with anyone you need to reach, but only be reached by the people you want to communicate with," says Facebook's David Marcus.

Sounds good to us. 

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In this day and age, we LOVE our social networks, but one of them trumps all others.

In a new study published in the journal Information, Communication & Society, has found that Snapchat makes people happier than any other social network.

Researchers from the University of Michigan enlisted 154 college students who used smartphones and texted them six times a day over a two-week period.

When the students received the text, they had to answer a survey about their latest social interactions – like who they were with, how supportive they were and how they felt at that moment. 

The researchers found that when participants had Snapchat interactions, they felt more positive emotions than when they had Facebook interactions.

They also found that the students paid more attention to Snapchat messages. 

The reason might be because people don't feel as insecure about how to present themselves on Snapchat, since the images disappear in a couple of seconds. 

But in general, the participants found that Snapchat is similar to face-to-face interactions with a friend, since the messages come day-to-day and not recorded for anyone else to see. 

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You post up an ill-advised status on Facebook or Twitter. Or maybe that late-night Snapchat or Instagram share was not-so smart the morning after the night before.

So you delete it and move on – vowing to stay off social media platforms when you’re feeling similarly ‘tired and emotional’.

However, once something goes up online – can it ever truly be erased? Well, the answer is somewhat worrying.

“Whether or not something is deleted isn’t within the user’s control,” says Behnam Dayanim, a Washington, DC-based lawyer who specialises in privacy and cyber security. 

Take a regular email. When you delete it from your inbox, it goes to a “deleted items” folder. Empty that folder and you permanently kill the message – or does it?

Not necessarily, adds Mr Dayanim in conversation with menshealth.com, because it could still stick around on your email provider’s servers for an indefinite amount of time. 

You can’t really get around this either, since you give these companies explicit permission to hold on to your data when you agree to their vague privacy policies.  

So what exactly do social media sites hold onto?

1) Facebook

The social network stores data for “as long as necessary to provide products and services to you and others”.

2) Gmail

After you delete an email, Gmail “may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers”.

3) Twitter

Twitter doesn’t comment on what it does when you delete a Tweet, but says that “search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your user profile information and public Tweets, even after you have deleted the information from the Twitter Services or deactivated your account.”

4) Snapchat

When you view a snap, it’s automatically deleted from the company’s servers… in “most cases”. Snapchat “can’t guarantee that the messages will be deleted within a specific timeframe” and says your snap “may remain in backup for a limited period of time.”

5) Instagram

The photo app may retain information for “a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.”

If you’re more than a little freaked out by this, Cyberdust (free for iOS, Android, and Windows platforms) will ease some of your paranoia.

The app claims to permanently wipe every message you send within 100 seconds of recipients reading it – even from company servers. 

Otherwise, these tales of online woe might serve as deterrents too:

1) In 2013, PR consultant Justine Sacco Tweeted a tasteless joke: ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!’ By the time she got off her 11-hour flight, thousands of angry people had responded to the Tweet, and the hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet was trending worldwide.

Shortly after the gaffe, Sacco lost her job. She’s the subject of Jon Ronson’s recent book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.

2) Earlier this year, Rory Cullinan, former chairman of the Royal Bank Of Scotland, was fired from his position after his daughter posted screenshots of their private Snapchat messages to her Instagram account. Cullinan sent snaps from his office, with captions like “Another friggin meeting.” Seems innocent enough, but weeks later, Cullinan was canned. 

3) When a Buckingham Palace guard posted commented about Kate Middleton on his Facebook page, calling her a “posh bitch” and “stupid stuck-up cow,” he was relieved him of his duties guarding the Royal Wedding in 2011. 

4) In 2014, James Franco messaged a 17-year-old on Instagram, asking if she was single and wanted to meet up. The girl asked for proof that it was Franco, which the actor provided, and then posted screenshots of the exchange on Imgur. 

Franco copped to the exchange, but landed a seedy reputation for chatting up teens. 

5) Amy Pascal, one of Hollywood’s most powerful executives, recently stepped down from her role as head of Sony’s movie division after hackers released private emails between her and other producers late last year. In her messages, Pascal made racially insensitive comments about Barack Obama and insulted celebrities like Angelina Jolie. 

So ultimately, it’s probably best to ask yourself a few key questions every time you’re about to send something out, namely: Will this get me fired? Will it keep me from landing a job in the future? Will it hurt someone? 

If your status, photo, or text can’t pass the test, it probably isn’t worth posting.   

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Facebook has become a big part of our daily lives, but sometimes it's more of a bother than anything else.

From meaningless notifications to annoying status updates, follow these handy hacks to make sure your feed is the way YOU want it: 

1. Hide certain posts/pages from you News Feed

After logging on to FB, you likely scroll through your News Feed to see what friends are up to or to read interesting articles. However, you may have that one friend that constantly posts ridiculous status updates. 

Instead of unfriending them completely, you can unfollow their page by clicking on the arrow on the top of a given post. 

If you're on your phone, select 'Unfollow X' or if your on a desktop, select 'Hide all from X'. 

 

2. See the most recent posts from your News Feed

FB is automatically programmed to show you top posts from your friends and pages. However, that means sometimes seeing older posts that aren't that relevant anymore. 

Change your News Feed to appear in chronological order using the left-hand sidebar. If you're on your phone, click 'more', then scroll down to 'feeds' and select 'most recent'.

 

3. Choose people and pages to show up first

If you have the new FB update, you can now customise your News Feed to prioritise updates from your favourite people and pages.

To activate these settings, go to News Feed preferences and under 'settings', choose 'prioritise who to see first'. Assigning blue stars to your top friends will unsure you never miss an update. 

 

4. Stop getting notifications from things you don't care about

FB is all about communicating with friends, so it's likely you will comment on a post your BFF might share. However, after you comment, you might start to receive notifications from other users commenting on the same post after you. 

This is super annoying, especially when you're not in the convo anymore, so to stop these, first click on the notifications button and you can adjust what you want to see from there. 

 

5.Stop notifications popping up on your phone

Similarly, your likely to not want pointless notifications on your phone either. Push notifications can be adjusted under your phone's settings. Select 'notifications' and then 'mobile push' and uncheck anything you don't want ot see anymore. 

 

6.  Disable 'seen' in FB Messenger

Your Messenger automatically allows friends to see when you've opened a message they sent you. While this is one of the harder ones to undo, you can use a third party app to turn it off on your desktop only. Some popular choices are FBUnseen (for Google Chrome) or Unseenly. 

 

7. Choose who can see what you post

You can block individual friends or lists of friends from seeing your most recent status updates, or photos you've posted. At the end of your post, you'll see a button at the bottom telling you who can view it, click that, then click 'more options' and then 'custom'.

Under 'don't share with', type in the person's name that you want to hide the post from. 

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We all know that we should be checking our privacy settings on Facebook. Apparently this is not just to prevent someone we don’t know spotting a less than flattering snap of us from days gone by.

The social networking site is now offering a feature that will tell you who has been ‘spying’ on you.

The 'hacker alert’ feature is not necessarily what you might think. It is not actually put in place in order for you to see if the cute guy from the office has been having a look at your profile.

Instead, it was designed to tell you when governments are spying on you.

Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos wrote in a Facebook blog, "Starting today, we will notify you if we believe your account has been targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state."

This is what the notification will look like:

If users get the notification, the company is recommending rebuilding or replacing systems that have been infected by malware.

To avoid that, because that’s pretty impractical, Facebook suggests turning on login approval.

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“We decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored.”

"We do this because these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others.”

Login approvals send you a notification if your account is being logged into from an unfamiliar device or IP address.

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At this point you have more than likely come across the internet sensation that is the ‘ermahgerd’ girl.

She became a viral sensation in 2012, and there have been many attempts to recreate the meme, nothing can compare to the original.

However, Maggie Goldenbeger the girl behind the meme had absolutely no control over her awkward teenage photo being posted on Reddit and going viral.

In the photo an 11-year old Maggie is sporting some unfortunate pigtails, an interesting vest and a pretty chic retainer and unruly brow combo. She’s also the proud owner of three books from the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine, in their original 90s editions.

Vanity Fair recently caught up with Maggie to find out what happened when she discovered her alter ego ‘Berks’:

“I just can't believe this is my 15 minutes of fame—I was hoping it would come in another form. But I guess you have to take what you can get,” the 26-year old said.

When the photo first went viral she was travelling to India and the Philippines with limited internet access. So, when someone she didn’t know found her picture on Facebook and uploaded it she had no idea.

A Reddit user came across it while scrolling through a public Facebook album, he had no idea who Maggie was and didn't know the person who uploaded the photo either.

Maggie said that her internet fame is something she finds pretty funny (ERMAHGERD ERCEBERG is her favourite, FYI) until people tried to track her down.

An online quest to identify ‘Berks’ did cause Maggie some distress: her real name was attached to the pictures. An anonymous internet user found and uploaded a photo of her on a beach in Hawaii in a bikini- it attracted some very nasty comments.

“I have no idea who did that,” she said. “And if I'm going to have a bikini shot floating around on the Internet, I’d like to be spray tanned and under a waterfall somewhere.”

So, was Maggie really that excited about Goosebumps in the first place?

“There were a couple I really enjoyed, but . . . I was not an avid Goosebumps reader.”

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That feeling when your battery only has one per cent of life left and you are not within walking distance of a charger is infuriating. Yet, it is something that iPhone users experience on a near daily basis.

Yes, it is definitely a first world problem- we understand this. However, for many people their smartphones have become a necessary part of their daily lives.

Granted we probably lie and say that is because we’re sending hundreds of work related emails when in fact we’re watching hilarious videos of pugs in pyjamas, but that’s a different issue. This screen is the number one cause of frustration for many an iPhone user:

Now, as it turns out, your Facebook habit is not just destroying your productivity levels- it is also draining your battery.

People have known that Facebook kills your battery for a while, but it seems the newest iOS versions are seriously draining. Many people are claiming that Facebook’s killing their iPhone’s battery, usually with background activity, even with Background App Refresh turned off.

“We have heard reports of some people experiencing battery issues with our iOS app. We’re looking into this and hope to have a fix in place soon,” the spokesperson told Tech Crunch.

A writer for Medium points out this is because the app isn’t “sleeping properly” and it could be because of “background audio usage,” but that has yet to be confirmed.

So, what to do now?

Life Hacker suggests just deleting the app altogether and using the mobile site instead, if you can handle having one less app in your life.

Spoiler: you definitely can.

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There is bound to be someone you know, or perhaps even you have had the experience of a parent taking things too far on social media.

For example: One poor girl attempted to post the ever popular, and oh-so subtly alluring ‘green tea, laptop, and fluffy socks'’ snap that bloggers just live for.

She then posted it on Facebook. There’s even some leg on display, but mostly those are covered.

Presumably, the woman wanted to show just how warm and cozy she was – which, coincidentally, is the message written on her mug.

Her dad saw his opportunity and he took it.

This was an unmissable opportunity for a contender for dad joke of the year.

He posted a picture of his own, in which he re-enacts his daughter's pose. Lying on his bed, he has his hairy legs on show, with his polka dot ankle socks pulled up just about as high as they'll go.

Completing his fetching look is a very dad-chic pair of checked shorts. Oh, and he's looking at pictures of dogs on his laptop, obvs.

The picture was posted on Reddit by user allthepeople alongside the caption: "My sister posted a picture to Facebook, my Dad responded."

It has since gone viral, with over 1 million views on it has also been shared on Reddit. 

One viewer said: "Just sitting here in my high socks, Google searching puppy pictures. Typical Saturday night. Love, Dad."

"He didn't show nearly enough leg," wrote one person.

Another added: "Your dad has better socks in my opinion. Could you tell him that a random stranger likes his socks? They're pretty dope."

However, some were more concerned about the placement of the coffee cups:

"Can't stop worrying those mugs will spill on the keyboards."

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