Facebook Finally Shows You Time Spent on Facebook, But It's Flawed

Following Instagram'south lead, its parent company Facebook has at present started rolling out the "Your time on Facebook" feature to allow users know and manage their fourth dimension spent scrolling through the feed watching cute cat videos.

The social media behemothic announced this characteristic to tackle social media habit or dependency four months ago. It's now finally here (live on the iPhone XR at the Beebom office) and we decided to take it for a spin to meet how well it works, all the features information technology offers, and whether it's of whatsoever help.

How to Access 'Your Time on Facebook'

i. To check out this feature, you simply demand to open the Facebook app and tap on the 'More' tab and scroll down to the 'Settings & Privacy' option.

2. In one case y'all aggrandize the "Settings & Privacy" tab, you tin can tap the newly added 'Your time on Facebook' option to see if you're addicted to social media.

Your Time on Facebook Features

As you lot tin can see in the screenshot attached above, Facebook outset tells you virtually the time spent on the platform each day for the last one calendar week. It non simply depicts these figures via a graph just also calculates and shows the 'boilerplate time per twenty-four hour period' spent past you on the platform.

You can run across that my colleague Karthik doesn't really use Facebook a lot and hisaverage time spent sits at merely three minutes per day, which is fairly expert. However, if you lot're someone with alpine towers and long hours spent on the platform, the drove of tools provided by Facebook can assistance yous curb your habit.

The social media giant has reiterated that its goal is now to help its massive 2.72 billion user base focus on healthy and meaningful conversations, so it provides you the option to suit your "News Feed preferences" correct off the bat. Information technology lets y'all prioritize users or pages and unfollow others to hide their posts.

You lot can then scroll downwardly and choose to gear up a reminder for the 'amount of time' yous want to spend on the platform, which is similar to fourth dimension limit features being offered by Apple'southward Screen Time and Google's Digital Wellbeing tools.

Facebook will ship you a notification to warning you lot when you have reached that time limit, reminding you that it's time to put the app away. You can likewise suit notification settings from within 'Your Time on Facebook' to reduce distractions or unwanted messages popping up throughout the day.

The Big Flaw: Non The Total Motion picture

While all this is good and Facebook is trying to practice its part to adjourn addiction, I have i major concern with the implementation of this characteristic. When you open the 'Your Time on Facebook' option in the app, you can run across at the height that the characteristic just takes time spent on the device into business relationship.

This is, all the same, not the correct measure every bit y'all could still be spending as much fourth dimension scrolling through posts on other devices.The social media behemothic needs to requite us a fuller picture of our time spent, with per-device stats, which we expect to see in the well-nigh hereafter.

The characteristic is currently existence rolled out to all Facebook users, so be patient every bit it should come to your app in the coming days. Have you received it yet? If so, permit us know if information technology'south helping you lot reduce your usage in the comments below.