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Re:Connected, but at What Cost? by adg29 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @11:18AM (#22908318)
“Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being”

In my experience Facebook offers polarization and information overload on one side, or a barrage of memes and random nostalgia on the other. I’ve given up on trying to manage what is recommended to me there, although for a while I did purge my friends and likes carefully, to some effect.

I don’t go so as far as deleting Facebook but it’s definitely less a resource and more an entertainment / distraction vehicle

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