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Facebook and Instagram To Now Tell You How Much Time You Waste in Their Apps
Facebook and Instagram are introducing a new dashboard to tell you how long you’ve spent inside their apps, along with tools for setting daily limits and temporarily muting your push notifications. The new set of features, called “Your time on Facebook" and “Your activity" on Instagram, are designed to address concerns that addictive feedback loops built into social apps have been detrimental to users’ well-being.
Maybe I’m being radically cynical here, but isn’t this sort of a complicit statement from Facebook/Instagram that their apps are wasting your time, and you should be doing other, better, more important things?
I look forward to finding out that some way, some how, this leads to people using those apps more, as opposed to less.
Wednesday August 1, 2018