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Facebook and Instagram introduce time limit tool
Facebook and Instagram are releasing a new tool to limit how much time people spend on their apps. The announcement follows concerns that excessive social media use can have a negative impact on mental health.
Users will now be able to check how much time they've spent scrolling, set a reminder for when they've reach their allotted time, and mute notifications for a period of time.
But some people say it doesn't go far enough. "I wouldn't say it's a radical change or that it's going to really change a lot about the way that most people use Facebook or Instagram," Grant Blank, from the Oxford Internet Institute, tells Newsbeat. "It strikes me as a way to balance their corporate interest of keeping people spending as much time as possible on Facebook, while still being responsive to people who find the continual notifications to be disturbing or distracting."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:44AM (7 children)
Just delete Facrbook. Walk away... life it too short to waste on social masturbation sites.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Mykl on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:48AM (6 children)
Speaking of which, I wonder if they'll roll out a similar tool on Pornhub?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:56AM (4 children)
Don't we already have a time limiter at hand, so to speak? How many hours can you stroke that thing before it starts getting sore?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:57AM (2 children)
How many hours are in a day?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:15AM
How many hours are in a life?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 02 2018, @05:46AM
If you are doing all the hours of the day, clearly something is wrong the way you do it.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:43PM
Apple support line: you're holding it wrong.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:05AM
Why would I want to spend less time at Pornhub?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:16AM (3 children)
Run ads. Lots and lots of ads. Make 'em so they don't go away... you have got to tolerate the stream of them for several minutes at a time.
Television Broadcasters have used this same technique very successfully to get people to go somewhere else.
Hollywood, theaters, and Google are now also running research on how many straws it will take to break the camel's back. The ad people need cheap ads, and from an advertiser's perspective, people's time is free for the taking. So nothing of value is lost by pissing them all off and getting them into other ruts... not yours. Gotta think like an ad man, not someone that's trying to gain market share. That kinda crap is just for those growing, not milking, a business.
Not much different than a burger parlor experimenting with how much soy they can put in a burger before people equate his brand with junk.
Only thing you need are understanding investors who will pay you anyway after you when you crash what was a thriving business.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday August 02 2018, @05:06AM (2 children)
I just go to theatre that lets me reserve my particular seat, and then show up 15 - 20 mins after the advertised start time. Everything works out nicely that way. I miss the ads and still get my choice seat. The last straw for me was seeing the same ads on the theatre screen that I was on my TV screen.
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(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:39AM (1 child)
Which is why they do productplacement in movies.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:23AM
Product Placement:
Remember how they used to do this with tobacco, mink coats, furs, and diamonds?
Got us all hooked on thinking things were to be done that way, because that's what was shown as the way things are supposed to be on the big screen.
The burly rough cowboys were always lighting one up. So were police sergeants and detectives. So, the message was clear. Real Men Smoked!
The women were always pining for mink coats and diamonds. Had I been a woman of that day, I'd been pining for a washing machine!
When I see the re-runs of those old black and white movies, and knowing what to look for, its pretty obvious how they snuck those memes into our psyche.
My own pissoff point is with DeBeers, who convinced nearly every American that the purchase of an overpriced rock ( DeBeers monopoly, no less ) is a requirement for matrimony. It caused an entire nation's young families to start off with misappropriated funds.... those funds should have gone into buying their house or car, not some overpriced symbol showing one loves a mate so much as to devote so much wealth to DeBeers corporation.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:32AM
the off button?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:39AM
In other news, water introduces tools to help swimmers be less wet. Mysterious drownings ensue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @09:45AM
"AC, after analyzing the amount of time you spent on social media this week we see you're averaging three hours a day across a variety of social media platforms. We recommend that you stop using everything but Facebook and Instagram, but increase your time on each to bring your social media use to an average of two hours a day. We suggest you spend your newly regained hour of free time by visiting one of these fine sponsors."
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:02AM (3 children)
This sort of sound like drugdealers handing out smaller baggies cause they want you to smoke less weed, or if COKE was to make smaller cans cause they don't want you to drink so much coke.
I'm not even sure this will actually have an effect if it's something you have to turn on, the real screen fanatics won't apply it and the people that will are probably the people that don't need it. All in all this is probably as far as Facebook et al just another AB-test to increase screentime for it's users, cause yes they are going to log this for you and analyze the shit out of it to find out how they can cram in more stuff and have you spend longer time there then you wanted or intended. So in the end ... Thanks for all the new and free data you supplied us with to make our product even worse for you!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:56PM (2 children)
Coke does make small cans. On their face, they want to know that drinking too many sugary drinks is a bad thing. Their pocket books hope you're too addicted to their delicious sugary drink to realize what their face is saying, though.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:07PM (1 child)
I only see the tiny little cans on airplanes tho, not anywhere else so they are sort of a specialty product (even tho I can't really understand why they dont have the normal 33cl cans since they carry so much other crap on the planes). So I'm not sure they are a "drink less" can, but more of the the airline companies made us make these little cans cause they hate you and dont want you to enjoy as much coke as you would normally want or do.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 03 2018, @03:24PM
You can buy them at local grocery stores. At least I see them all the time at mine.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:30AM
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