A team of researchers from Stanford and New York University released about the influence of Facebook on our mood, attention and relationships.
The peculiarity is that this is the most impressive and in-depth study (n=3000, check-ins every day for a month, etc.) on the impact of social media on people today. The control group used FB daily, while the experimental group stopped using it for a month.
The results: Giving up Facebook causes difficulties in relationships with loved ones, creates problems with scheduling time, and makes it difficult to articulate political views.
Kidding. Of course, people without Facebook have more time (β1 hour a day), they pay more attention to friends and relatives, they have less radical political views.
In the process, it turned out that people, on average, estimate the abandonment of FB for a month at $100β200 (I remind you that they want this for +30 hours to life).
Perhaps the most important discovery: turning off social media definitely improves mood and a sense of pleasure from life. Not much, but statistically significant.
Stanford researchers have not yet made official conclusions, and are waiting for peer studies. However, it is clear that FB as a platform is being pressed more and more to do something with the so-called βattention hygieneβ.
Source: habr.com