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Study Finds Quitting Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Stressed
- nitwit005 11y agoIt doesn't say what they did instead, so this might just mean that TV and Netflix produces more happiness than Facebook.
- ionised 11y agoI still have my account but I've pretty much cut back my time to a few minutes, two or three times a week. That's basically just to check private messages as well, as I have some friends who send messages primarily through Facebook messenger rather than SMS. I didn't make a conscious attempt to use it less and less over time, it just happened. I grew tired of the News Feed and all the inane food and baby posts and reactionary or downright misinformed 'political' posts from people I would have otherwise expected to be capable of critical thinking. I removed all of my family and work colleagues from my friends list years ago, nothing good ever came from them knowing what my friends were like or what I was doing with them in my social time haha. Plus I have major problems with Facebook as a company and its practices, advertising and tracking. I'm kind of a hypocrite for using it in the first place. I found myself hiding more and more people over time, and then gradually using it less and less to the point where I now just fire up the Tinfoil app on my phone two or three times a week, checking messages from my closest friends who are usually trying to organise a board game day or some drinks in town. Can't say my life has been negatively affected in any way, in fact I feel better for not having this extra thing to think about that was basically just a task or chore to me. I'm starting to think the next logical step is to just stop using it altogether. I don't believe I'm going to be negatively affected in any way.