{"id":1865,"date":"2012-09-04T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2012-09-04T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:24:34","slug":"got-facebook-say-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Got Facebook? Say cheese!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to report too much on Facebook, but an interesting study was <a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/content\/3\/4\/407.abstract?etoc\">published<\/a>\u00a0over the summer about how Facebook photos predict later happiness. It was a small study, but in it, researchers coded a single Facebook picture for both men and women at their first semester of college and then compared that to their ratings of life satisfaction 3 1\/2 years later at graduation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1869\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paper-emotions-laughter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1869\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1869\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paper-emotions-laughter-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paper-emotions-laughter-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paper-emotions-laughter-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paper-emotions-laughter.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by atsoram<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They found that smile intensity was related to relationship satisfaction.\u00a0They also found that smile intensity predicted changes in life satisfaction over time: the more intense the smile, the higher reports of life satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>As with all research, we can&#8217;t read too much into this. Faking your next profile pic isn&#8217;t going to make your life better and happy 3 1\/2 years down the road. This could, however, be a good way to take a self inventory and even get feedback from friends and family. Are you happy now? How are your relationships? Do they make you happy?<\/p>\n<p>If not, now may be the time to make some changes. Here on CollectiveInquiry, we have written about <a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/tag\/happiness\/\">happiness<\/a>. You can also consider visiting with a therapist or even talking to a <a title=\"Listening is Fixing\" href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/listening-is-fixing\/\">good friend<\/a>. Addressing these things now, and making that smile real, could have an impact on your life 3 1\/2 years later.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">(Thumbnail image by\u00a0greyman.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to report too much on Facebook, but an interesting study was published\u00a0over the summer about how Facebook photos predict later happiness. It was a small study, but in it, researchers coded a single Facebook picture for both men and women at their first semester of college and then compared that to their ratings of life satisfaction 3 1\/2 years<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1865\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,136],"tags":[75,52,26,48,163],"coauthors":[15],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-individual","category-research","tag-happiness","tag-human","tag-mindfulness","tag-relationship","tag-smile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/smile.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}