Do you use Snapchat? If not, maybe you should. 

Everyone's on Facebook, and we all have varying levels of emotions about it. There's a new study from the University of Michigan, though, that found that using Snapchat makes you more likely to have a good day than using Facebook. Or any other social media for that matter.

Still, the only interaction more rewarding than Snapchat is face-to-face interaction, and we're not too surprised by that finding.

"On the surface, many people view Snapchat as the 'sexting app,' said U-M researcher Joseph Bayer, the lead author of the study. "But instead, we found that Snapchat is typically being used to communicate spontaneously with close friends in a new and often more enjoyable way."

Speaking of communicating spontaneously with friends in an enjoyable way, we just got our very own Snapchat. Yes, our username is spoiledNYC. It's pretty straightforward, and we promise not to send you sexts.

So add us. 

Oh, you want to talk about the "Snapchat makes you happy" study more. Fine. Here's how Bayer and his colleagues found their results. 

They recruited 154 college students who used smartphones, and then used "experience sampling," which measures how people think, feel and behave moment-to-moment in their daily lives to assess the participants' well-being by texting them at random times six times a day for two weeks.

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They were asked questions like, "How negative or positive do you feel right now? How did your most recent interaction occur? How pleasant or unpleasant was your most recent interaction?"

They found that Snapchat interactions are associated with more positive emotions than Facebook. We're not surprised about that either. To us, Snapchat seems to fulfill something integral about interaction that Facebook lacks.

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When we miss someone and we look on their Facebook, we're hovering through like a ghost. They'll have no evidence that we were actually there. If we send them a Snapchat, though, that person will know we missed them. They'll get an ephemeral picture of our smiling face.

Bayer and his colleagues investigated which aspects of Snapchat caused the positive emotional reward. They found reduced "self-presentational" concerns, like not worrying whether shared pictures seem ugly or conceited.

"Snapchat seems to provide a distinct space for sharing the small moments," said Bayer.

We promise to share awesome, small moments. So add us on Snapchat. We'll make you happy. Promise.  

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[via Michigan News]

[via Business Insider]