Intenret - Happiness?

The World Internet Report of 2013 summarizes all of the recent changes that have been happened in certain countries from all over the world. This report, however, touches upon another topic that interested me personally. According to the article one of the findings proclaim s that internet uses tend to be happier than non-users of the web. I found it interesting due the argument affirming connection between happiness of a human and once use of internet. First question that came to my mind is “how do you measure happiness of a person?”; is there an accurate way to determine a happiness level? Alright, let’s say there is a way that relatively accurate identifies the level of happiness of a human. And yet, how can we draw a firm relationship between use of an internet and how happy people feel themselves? I personally think that assumption such as that internet makes its users happier is very vague. There is an enormous amount of factors that contribute to the happiness level of a human. Most likely non-users of internet are complaining on their life simply because of their lack of income or education level. Also, older generation that form the largest percent of non-internet users tend to complain on their life the most, which makes them the unhappiest segment of the population. Content streaming on-line can easily influence people’s life, however a presence of the internet itself should barely affect someone’s happiness level.