I had a conversation with a good friend of mine earlier this week that blew my mind. My friend—who lives many states away from me—and I were talking about Facebook, and noticeably her decision to get off the social media site. After intending to "take a break from it for a while" and return later, she said she now intended to never do so.

"It just really makes me feel bad about myself," she sheepishly told me. Months after leaving it, she said she feels noticeably happier about her life.

Oddly enough, the next day another friend—one that I often talk about happiness factors with—sent me a link to a story about a new study linking Facebook to unhappiness with the note: Maybe this isn't helping us.