Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man [...]

Facebook Prototype Measures Gross National Happiness, Confirms That We Hate Mondays

With employees at many companies being given a Blackberry to help keep on top of their email it’s little surprise to see an increase in stress. With email pinging into your pocket 24 hours a day, there’s often a compulsion to keep on top of it, replying to emails at all times of day and [...]

Can the Apple iPhone, which supplies hours of entertainment, actually measure your happiness?

In an attempt to nail down what psychological aspects factor into “the successful life,” researchers have been following 268 Harvard students from the 1940s until now, conducting extensive physical and psychological tests each year.
In a lengthy but fascinating piece, The Atlantic reports on what’s known as the Grant Study and its current lead, Dr. George [...]

Master Thesis by Jim Stolze, April 2009
Lemniscaat Management School

Abstract
We asked five thousand readers of a magazine aimed at women to complete an online survey to assess the frequency and appreciation of their time spent with reading the magazine and the magazines’ online Forum. The goal was to examine the relationship between Internet usage and happiness [...]

If you recently attended a course in a classroom, you know what this story is going to be about. A professor talking to the group, and students looking at their laptops or telephones.
Are they taking notes? Or are they IM-ing with their buddies?  Does the professor in any of these two situaties have the full [...]

Nearly every prominent element of the human environment - from housing, to family, to diet, to climate - has been implicated in countless analyses of its correlation with human happiness. The Web, and how we use it, however, has not been.
In searching (the Web) for thinkers who have given thought to a correlation between happiness [...]

Meat Tony and Ashley. Ashley wants to leave Tony because he’s totally addicted to Twitter. She says that her man is chatting all the time, even when they’re watching TV or are in the bedroom.

Still there are also marriages that are the result of Twitter-usage!

Can happiness be found online? Enter the “Virtual Happiness Project” in the Netherlands, which explores the relationship between the Web 2.0 (in particular) and happiness.
Though the final report hasn’t been released yet, the project’s global survey results and experiments suggest something that a lot of Facebook users already sense: social interaction is a driver for [...]