Logging off from Facebook can contribute to more happiness, according to a Danish study on users of the social networking site. The findings were based on a week-long survey of 1,095 Facebook users, who were divided into two groups, Meik Wiking, chief executive of The Happines Research Institute said on Wednesday. “One half would continue to use Facebook as normal, that was our control group, and the other half were asked not to log on to Facebook for a week,” he told newsmen. A week later, the two groups were assessed again and there was an increase in the average happiness rating among those who took a break from Facebook. On a 10-point scale, their average increased 0.5 points – rising from 7.56 to 8.12 points, while the group that continued to use Facebook showed only a marginal change, the report said. “The finding, I was most surprised about was how much life satisfaction increased in our treatment group, the people who had a break from Facebook,” Wiking said. The researchers had