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Facebook and Instagram now show how many minutes you use them

Facebook and Instagram now show how many minutes you use them

6 years ago
Anonymous $oIHRkISgaL

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/facebook-and-instagram-your-activity-time/

It’s passive zombie feed scrolling, not active communication with friends that hurts our health, according to studies Facebook has been pointing to for the last seven months. Yet it’s treating all our social networking the same with today’s launch of its digital wellbeing screentime management dashboards for Facebook and Instagram in the US before rolling them out to everyone.

Giving users a raw count of the minutes you’ve spent in their apps each day in the last week plus your average across the week is a good start to making users more mindful. But by burying them largely out of sight, giving them no real teeth to deter overusage, and not distinguishing between passive and active behavior, they seem destined to be ignored while missing the point the company itself stresses.