Facebook can now reveal how long does one spend on the app every day

Facebook is finally rolling out its “Your Time on Facebook” tool; a much-anticipated feature that the company announced fifteen weeks ago. The feature is designed so that one can monitor his/her time spent on Facebook. This tool will help to effectively manage social networking hours without making it an addiction. The dashboard informs how many minutes have been spent on the app on a particular device each day for a week and also reveals the average time spent.

We can manage our time spent on Facebook by setting a daily limit and receiving a reminder to discontinue the usage after that time every day.  The feature can be accessed by clicking on Facebook’s More tab and then going on Settings & Privacy and activating “Your Time on Facebook”. It has one obvious demerit that there is no way to see a breakdown of how long one spends on browsing the News Feed, creating posts, messaging, commenting etc.

A similar tool has also been launched by Instagram last week called as “Your Activity” tab. With such tools being around the corner, it appears that right attention is being given to the digital well-being features. Rather the important question is that whether using such features can actually stop people from being excessively engrossed in the social media platforms. Worth pondering, isn’t it?