The quality of friends rather than their quantity is responsible for happiness

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Researchers at the University of Lidza in the UK found out that human happiness is really dependent on friends. But their quality plays a decisive role, not at all the quantity that most young people seek.

The presence of hundreds of virtual friends on the social site Facebook is not a complete replacement for several friends alive in real life. This conclusion was reached by British researchers. They found that people who have only a few close friends are no less happier than those who have the number of friends on the official site is calculated by hundreds or even thousands. It should be noted that it is young people who seek to acquire a large number of friends and subscribers, but the study showed that it did not affect the level of satisfaction from social life. According to researchers, instead of collecting virtual friends, we need to focus on finding real ones that are true and most effective medicines for loneliness.

The study authors made this conclusion based on the observations of the psyche just less than 1,500 people. They spoke in detail about their age, the number of friends and the intensity of communication on social networks, how often different methods of social communication are used, as well as evaluated the level of satisfaction of life. Information included data on how often people communicate with relatives or neighbors. It turned out that the number of close friends in real life really influenced how satisfied with their social life. The negative perception of their friends is because of virtuality.