Internal docs: a Facebook well-being team's survey found 12.5% of participants reported compulsive use of Facebook that negatively impacted their lives
360 million people—report engaging in compulsive use of social media that hurts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. Then Facebook shut down the research team. https://www.wsj.com/... Jesse Felder / @jessefelder : ‘The research group followed a thousand people over 6 months in a nationally representative survey and found that the amount of social media that a person used was the #1 predictor of the variables they measured for who became depressed.’ https://www.wsj.com/... cc @johannhari101 Barb Dybwad / @doctorparadox : The guy who built a “It's Hot or Not, but for Harvard elites” engine is now sitting on years of intimate psychographic data of 3 billion people, and selling it to the highest bidders. We're going to need a bigger stick. https://twitter.com/... Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer : Facebook doesn't want to fix the worst things about Facebook, because the worst things about Facebook are spectacularly profitable. And it doesn't want others to fix these things, either—as the “Unfollow Everything” story shows. https://www.wsj.com/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : Do you sense the pattern unfolding across Haugen's files? I'm seeing various instances of Facebook realizing that it needs to awkwardly kill its own features to reduce general harms. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Deepa Seetharaman / @dseetharaman : Unsurprisingly, there has been a lot of debate among employees and at the board level about how FB should manage these issues & balance that against the platform's need to keep people coming back. More here: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Deepa Seetharaman / @dseetharaman : New: Facebook researchers found that 1 in 8 users said they engaged in compulsive use of social media that harmed their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. With @georgia_wells & @JeffHorwitz. https://www.wsj.com/... Georgia Wells / @georgia_wells : Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of its users report engaging in compulsive use of the company's app that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. By me, @dseetharaman + @JeffHorwitz https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : Facebook studies how to anticipate the types of users who may try to quit by sensing for the signals of addiction while Apple and Google respond with protections from Facebook's manipulations. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Internal Facebook documents show that at least 360 million Facebook users report engaging in compulsive use of social media that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships https://www.wsj.com/...
A Facebook team found that 1 of 8 users felt compulsive use hurt their sleep, work or relationships. The team got some fixes through. Then it was dissolved. @georgia_wells @dseetharaman @JeffHorwitz w/ the latest in the @WSJ's #FacebookFiles series https://www.wsj.com/...
@georgia_wells ... Confronted by similar types of reports from addicted users, the Sackler family famously advised doctors to simply “double the dose!” Zuckerberg's solution is far less hesitant: “Let's suck them in COMPLETELY, to the Metaverse!”
Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest Facebook had a team focused on user well-being that implemented changes to make the service less addictive. That team was shut down in 2018. https://www.wsj.com/...
Somehow #Facebook manages to make people feel worse than other platforms. Could be that insulated mastermind micromanager behind the screen. https://twitter.com/...
what about the 7 other people who are much happier now that they've made friends with them they can organize anti-vaxx rallies and incite insurrections together? https://twitter.com/...
Last note; the one in eight figure is a global average. In the US, that figure is roughly 10%. But in the Philippines and India, it's closer to 25%, per one estimate. https://www.wsj.com/...
“I lose the notion of time.” Compulsive use of the Facebook app hurts sleep, work or relationships for 12.5% of users, internal company surveys show. (corrects an earlier tweet, now deleted, that said hundreds of millions of users reported compulsive use) https://www.wsj.com/... …
“I lose the notion of time.” Compulsive use of the app hurts sleep, work or relationships for 12.5% of Facebook users, according to internal company surveys. The latest in The Facebook Files series. https://www.wsj.com/...
Facebook researchers found that 1 in 8 of its users—360 million people—report engaging in compulsive use of social media that hurts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. Then Facebook shut down the research team. https://www.wsj.com/...
‘The research group followed a thousand people over 6 months in a nationally representative survey and found that the amount of social media that a person used was the #1 predictor of the variables they measured for who became depressed.’ https://www.wsj.com/... cc @johannhari101
The guy who built a “It's Hot or Not, but for Harvard elites” engine is now sitting on years of intimate psychographic data of 3 billion people, and selling it to the highest bidders. We're going to need a bigger stick. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook doesn't want to fix the worst things about Facebook, because the worst things about Facebook are spectacularly profitable. And it doesn't want others to fix these things, either—as the “Unfollow Everything” story shows. https://www.wsj.com/...
Do you sense the pattern unfolding across Haugen's files? I'm seeing various instances of Facebook realizing that it needs to awkwardly kill its own features to reduce general harms. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Unsurprisingly, there has been a lot of debate among employees and at the board level about how FB should manage these issues & balance that against the platform's need to keep people coming back. More here: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New: Facebook researchers found that 1 in 8 users said they engaged in compulsive use of social media that harmed their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. With @georgia_wells & @JeffHorwitz. https://www.wsj.com/...
Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of its users report engaging in compulsive use of the company's app that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. By me, @dseetharaman + @JeffHorwitz https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Facebook studies how to anticipate the types of users who may try to quit by sensing for the signals of addiction while Apple and Google respond with protections from Facebook's manipulations. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...