Facebook’s new time measurement feature, called Your Time on Facebook, has rolled out to app users. It allows them to see how long they spend on the social media site.<\/b>
\nAfter announcing it nearly four months ago, Facebook\u2019s New time measurement feature called \u201cYour Time on Facebook\u201d has finally started rolling out. It counts how long you\u2019ve spent inside the Facebook app on any one device and calculates and average for days and weeks of use.
TechCrunch reports the Your Time on Facebook tool is designed to try to help users manage their social networking time. It allows users to set limits and even generate reminders for yourself if you\u2019ve spent too long scrolling the feed.
Facebook\u2019s new time measurement and management tool is accessible through the hamburger menu in app. \u201cYour Time on Facebook\u201d can then be found under \u201cSettings and Privacy.\u201d From there, you can get a graph of your usage time and set up notifications and preferences to help set limits.
This also lets you prioritize which friends you see first in your feed and choose which notifications will trigger, potentially stopping you from looking at Facebook for things that don\u2019t interest you.
Unfortunately, the function won\u2019t force people who need stronger restrictions to stop. Unlike some other apps or plugins on the market, this will only serve you a brief and dismissable reminder in its current form. While it is a good step towards helping people understand how much time they have spent in app, it\u2019s unlikely to help people with more serious problems.
It also doesn\u2019t account for time spent on Facebook across multiple devices. A user may only spend a few minutes on their phone and hours browsing on their PC which would lead to no notification being triggered. The feature also doesn\u2019t have any ability to distinguish between active or passive app use. Scrolling mindlessly through an endless feed will be measured the same as more meaningful and potentially less harmful social interactions.<\/p>\n

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