A lot of smart people are looking at different aspects of this important issue. Both offer compelling research. Sociologist Claude Fischer argues that claims that technology drives us apart are largely supported by anecdotes and ignore the benefits. We want Facebook to be a place for meaningful interactions with your friends and family — enhancing your relationships offline, not detracting from them.
In this post, we want to give you some insights into how the research team at Facebook works with our product teams to incorporate well-being principles, and review some of the top scientific research on well-being and social media that informs our work.
According to the research, it really comes down to how you use the technology. Just like in person, interacting with people you care about can be beneficial, while simply watching others from the sidelines may make you feel worse.
The bad: In general, when people spend a lot of time passively consuming information — reading but not interacting with people — they report feeling worse afterward. In one experiment, University of Michigan students randomly assigned to read Facebook for 10 minutes were in a worse mood at the end of the day than students assigned to post or talk to friends on Facebook.
A study from UC San Diego and Yale found that people who clicked on about four times as many links as the average person, or who liked twice as many posts, reported worse mental health than average in a survey. Another theory is that the internet takes people away from social engagement in person.
The good: On the other hand, actively interacting with people — especially sharing messages, posts and comments with close friends and reminiscing about past interactions — is linked to improvements in well-being. Appel, H. The interplay between facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Asendorpf, J. Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology. Azen, R. The dominance analysis approach for comparing predictors in multiple regression.
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PLoS One 8:e Kuss, D. Online social networking and addiction—a review of the psychological literature. Public Health 8, — Lee, M. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. While Facebook's digital wellness measures are welcome, it's also industry standard at this point.
This year, all the social media and the big consumer tech companies with the notable exception of Twitter have rolled out similar transparency tools, all with the goal of helping people reclaim their time and use their phones and apps less.
In May, Google announced tools to let you see how long you spend on your phone; its "Digital Well Being" tools rolled out today for Pixel owners as well. If you use Facebook or Instagram on iOS or a Pixel, you can compare your Facebook's reporting numbers with those of your Screen Time and Digital Well Being reports, which track how long you spend on individual apps.
Before these native tools, apps like Moment tracked your phone use for you. The jury is still out on whether knowledge is really sufficient to encourage you to action. You can use notification settings and Mute Push Notifications to help manage how you spend your time on Facebook. Mute Push Notifications temporarily mutes push notifications on your device, but you'll still receive email or text SMS notifications that are on for your account.
To turn on Mute Push Notifications:. You won't see any time you've spent using Facebook on a computer, mobile browser or another device reflected in the totals or count towards your daily time reminder. Was this helpful? Related Articles. How do I manage roles for my Facebook Page? Where can I find and manage my Facebook language settings?
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