![]() To change behavior, we first need to explore the research and measure the difference between connection and distraction. But Facebook, with its ubiquity, roaring business, idealistic leadership and opportunity to promote what’s positive about technology is uniquely positioned to sound the alarm. Notification-spamming mobile app developers, video platforms like Netflix and YouTube and video games from Candy Crush to Call of Duty need to wake up to how their design choices can squander our attention and stifle our sanity. But the post only suggests highly indirect ways of addressing mindless consumption, rather than any purposeful interventions.] And it announced it will host a summit next year for academics and industry leaders to examine digital distraction, multi-tasking, and focus. It’s formally launching a Snooze feature we spotted testing in September that lets you hide a person, Page or Group for 30 days if you need some peace. [Update 12/15/17: Further showing Facebook’s interest, today it published its own “Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?” blog post with more research to the same conclusion as the science I cite below: it’s passive social media usage that depresses us, so we need to engage.įacebook notes it’s pledged $1 million towards youth technology usage and well-being research. We want the time people spend on Facebook to encourage meaningful social interactions,” he said on its most recent earnings call. Thankfully, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems ready to embrace that responsibility. It does both, but our opportunity and the tech giants’ responsibility is to shift usage toward “time well spent.” Taken as a whole, we can’t decide if it “brings the world closer together” like Facebook’s new mission statement says, or leaves us depressed and isolated. ![]() ![]() It’s a double-edged sword whose sides aren’t properly distinguished. “Social media” is a clumsy term that entangles enriching social interaction with mindless media consumption.
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