The addiction to social media is increasingly a growing concern, with many people getting aggressively hooked, even to a point of absentmindedness on a busy street, while sidewalks and buses have got all sort of teenagers with their eyes glued to their device.
According to a survey by Deloitte, people are making conscious effort to reduce or limit their phone usage, which study is based on responses from over 51,000 people between the ages of 18 and 75 across 32 countries, including the United States.
Now, Facebook and Instagram have released tools to help these addicted people manage their time on the social platforms, as the new feature can be set to a daily time range by the user.
The feature will let users see on their dashboard how much time they've spent on Facebook or Instagram per day, and allow them set daily limits for themselves, ranging from 15 minutes to 8 hours. And once they've hit stipulated time, they'll receive a notification, and they are also able to mute the push notifications for anytime.
For Facebook, the tool can be found in a new section of settings called "Your Time on Facebook" and Instagram has it under "Your Activity" in the settings.
The company hopes the tools will give people more control over the time they spend on the platforms and help foster more meaningful conversations.
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