Technology companies are beginning to offer us tools to fight addiction to mobile phones or, as they call it, promote "digital well-being ". Facebook is the next one to work on this, and will soon indicate how much time we use it per day and a week.
Google was the first to propose that we should limit the time we use our mobile phones, but Apple and many others soon joined. The previous step to reduce the minutes a day on Facebook and other social networks is to know how much we look at them.
Jane Manchun Wong, dedicated to analyzing the code of various apps, has shown on her Twitter account some screenshots of the function "Your Time on Facebook", which in the future will show us detailed statistics of how much we use it:
It seems a feature similar to the statistics that will be included in Instagram, although more focused on summarizing how much time we spend on the social network. If there are no changes before that section is added to Facebook, the information it will give us would be:
- Average daily minutes for the last week.
- Minutes of each of the last 7 days.
- Possibility of activating a warning when reaching a customizable daily maximum.
- Access to notification settings and "do not disturb" mode.
After the serious privacy scandal caused by Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg's company must improve its image, and fight against addiction mobile can help them in this regard.
We are not sure when the novelty will be presented, but it will seek to promote "time well spent on Facebook" Although the main source of income from the social network are ads, it no longer seeks that we dedicate the more time, the better, but rather that it be a higher quality experience.
Soon we will be able to know how much time we use Facebook from the mobile app's own statistics, without forgetting that they are also working on improvements for the privacy.
What do you think of this measure? Do you think we'll be surprised to find out how much time we use Facebook each day after the launch of the new counter?
