One day we'll stop using Facebook. What happens next?*

guest · Jan 31, 2019

This Is Your Brain Off Facebook
Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life.
January 30, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/...ogy-health.html?smid=tw-nytimesbits&smtyp=cur

So what happens if you actually do quit? A new study, the most comprehensive to date, offers a preview.

Expect the consequences to be fairly immediate: More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever. A small bump in one’s daily moods and life satisfaction. And, for the average Facebook user, an extra hour a day of downtime.

“For me, Facebook is one of those compulsive things,” said Aaron Kelly, 23, a college student in Madison, Wis. “It’s really useful, but I always felt like I was wasting time on it, distracting myself from study, using it whenever I got bored.”
Mr. Kelly, who estimated that he spent about an hour a day on the platform, took part in the study “because it was kind of nice to have an excuse to deactivate and see what happened,” he said.
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"The Welfare Effects of Social Media" (PDF) http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf

pegas · Jan 31, 2019

I didn't know that I have got only an extra hour a day when I'm not using FB, Instagram etc. Observing my daughter I'm pretty sure I have got 3 hours at least. :-D

guest · Feb 5, 2019

I Quit Facebook … Again. But This Time, It Feels Different.
February 4, 2019
https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/i-quit-facebook-again-but-this-time-it-feels-different.html

Nearly every day for the past decade or so, I have spent at least a few minutes mindlessly scrolling through Facebook. No longer: Last week, I deactivated my account.
The fallout from this has so far been exactly zero. I don’t feel particularly better or worse. Just a little delighted that it was so painless.

Facebook had instead become a kind of stress ball, or maybe a cigarette, something that I engaged with instinctively when I was bored or sad or waking up in the morning or waiting for the subway or after filing a story at work.

This time, I think (I hope!) my need for Facebook has evaporated. My most robust networking groups have transferred to Slack. My extended family has figured out group messaging. It’s all upside: I no longer feel the same guilt I used to feel after spending 20 minutes doing nothing but scrolling on the toxic platform.
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guest · Feb 5, 2019

Want to Feel Happier? Quitting Facebook May Help, but It’s Not the Silver Bullet
Maybe Changing Our Approach to Social Media Is a Better Answer Than Deleting the App Altogether?
February 5, 2019
https://blog.usejournal.com/want-to...lp-but-its-not-the-silver-bullet-fde0ece25a7f

If I’m honest, I’ve never really seen the point of making a big song & dance out of it.
If you want to quit social media, then just do it. We don’t need a press release telling us.
Does quitting Facebook improve well-being?
One of the more popular beliefs I’ve seen doing the rounds online is that leaving Facebook correlates with improved well-being.

Everyone is different. If ditching your social media accounts is really what you want to do, then you should do it. It can be a time burner for sure, and sometimes it’s best to just kick it to the curb.
If you’re doing it because you think it’s what you should do after reading how happy and fulfilled other people are [...] then, by all means, give it a try, but you should be prepared to find out that the answer to your problems may not be quitting social media, but rather changing how you interact with it.
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guest · May 28, 2019

I quit Facebook — but it’s getting harder to resist the pull back in
May 28, 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/i-q...etting-harder-to-resist-the-pull-back-in.html

I quit social media a few years ago to make my life better and easier, which it has.
And let me tell you something: Facebook. Is. Everywhere.

Every kids’ camp, every town event, and more and more small businesses and shops all post their information on Facebook. They basically exist only on Facebook! My opting out is feeling more and more like a chore — the very opposite of what I intended.
I keep hoping I can wait it out and Facebook’s influence will wane. But the opposite seems to be happening.

Facebook has completely reshaped community organization and interaction, and inserted itself right in the middle of it all.
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