You can quantify that. Look at your facebook feed. Divide the time that you spent reading something useful (i.e. something with actual impact in your life) by t

You can quantify that. Look at your facebook feed. Divide the time that you spent reading something useful (i.e. something with actual impact in your life) by the total time it you took to browsing useless gossip. I think, if you disregard the small amounts of self-validation we get, most of the socializing time is not beneficial. (and no, facebook is not social life, but it's a fingerprint of it)