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posted by martyb on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the social-media-mediation dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:23AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:23AM (#716102) Journal

    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.

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