Instagram users will soon be able to monitor their time spent on social media applications with a new "use insight" tool.
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Monitoring your time spent on social media can be quite difficult. After all, many of us are caught up in the whirlpool and spend too much time browsing pictures and videos of our closest and less intimate friends. Last week, Google unveiled its new time management control, a pioneering new way to keep track of application usage. Obviously, others are following suit, including Instagram.
Application researcher Jane Munchun Wong found out what Instagram was doing. She found a Usage Insights tool when writing code that showed how much time users spent on popular social media websites, hidden in the code of Instagram Android applications. Kevin Systrom, chief executive of Instagram, quickly confirmed the news on Twitter. & quot; we & 39; rebuilding tools to help Ig communities learn more about the time they spend on instagram - any time should be positive and intentional, & quot; he wrote. Dr. Ramani Durvasula, professor of psychology and practicing clinical psychologist, told Livestrong.com that she believed Instagram's new time monitoring tool was a step in the right direction. & Social media, she says, is like eating French fries. & We do it carelessly, and then unconsciously eat 500 calories. & quot;
However, she did point out that its effectiveness would depend largely on the specific measurement criteria of the tool and the clarity of the data presented. & "Ideally, it's a bit like a step function that tells me the number of steps in real time and gives me the total number of runs per day so I can monitor it," she explained. Much better? If some kind of alarm goes out after a certain period of time. After all, studies have found that most social media use is not a positive force in mental health. In addition to its ability to become totally addicted, it can negatively affect self-esteem and induce depression. A study conducted in the UK in 2017 found that Instagram was the absolute culprit among all leading social media sites, including Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Although the researchers did find that this might be a positive platform for self-expression and self-identification, they also determined that this platform would have a negative impact on young women's body image and sleep, and help young people's fomo (fear of missing out). Some studies also show that spending less time on social media can make you happier.
Even if there is no time monitoring function in social media applications, you can control your use by limiting yourself. Although you may miss your friend's avocado toast breakfast, it may make you happier in the long run.
Learn more : How to clean up on social media and still have friends
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