{"id":4048,"date":"2018-08-06T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:43:42","slug":"new-tools-to-manage-your-time-on-facebook-and-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/new-tools-to-manage-your-time-on-facebook-and-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tools to Manage Your Time on Facebook and Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Ameet Ranadive<\/a>, Product Management Director at Instagram, and\u00a0David Ginsberg<\/a>, Director of Research at Facebook<\/em><\/p>\n

Today we are announcing new tools to help people manage their time on Facebook and Instagram: an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and a new way to limit notifications. We developed these tools based on collaboration and inspiration from leading mental health experts and organizations, academics, our own extensive research and feedback from our community. We want the time people spend on Facebook and Instagram to be intentional, positive and inspiring. Our hope is that these tools give people more control over the time they spend on our platforms and also foster conversations between parents and teens about the online habits that are right for them.<\/p>\n

To access the tools, go to the settings page on either app. On Instagram tap \u201cYour Activity,\u201d and on Facebook, tap \u201cYour Time on Facebook.\u201d At the top, you\u2019ll see a dashboard showing your average time for that app on that device. Tap any bar to see your total time for that day. Below the dashboard, you can set a daily reminder to give yourself an alert when you\u2019ve reached the amount of time you want to spend on that app for that day. You can change or cancel the reminder at any time. You can also tap on \u201cNotification Settings\u201d to quickly access the new \u201cMute Push Notifications\u201d setting. This will limit your Facebook or Instagram notifications for a period of time when you need to focus.<\/p>\n

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We have a responsibility to help people understand how much time they spend on our platforms so they can better manage their experience. In December 2017, we\u00a0shared insights<\/a>\u00a0about what the team at Facebook is doing to create experiences that help people connect and build relationships.<\/p>\n
Additional Tools<\/b>
\nAlthough we have more work to do, over the past year, we\u2019ve introduced a number of tools to help people better control their experience on Facebook and Instagram. On Facebook, we improved News Feed quality to show people the\u00a0most relevant posts<\/a>\u00a0with features like\u00a0See First<\/a>,\u00a0Hide<\/a>,\u00a0Unfollow<\/a>, and\u00a0Keyword Snooze<\/a>. On Instagram, we launched\u00a0powerful tools<\/a>\u00a0to proactively care for the community \u2014 like the \u201cYou\u2019re All Caught Up\u201d message in Feed, keyword filtering, sensitivity screens, and offensive comment and bullying filters.<\/p>\n
We also have an ongoing, global commitment to suicide prevention, including the expansion of proactive detection and improvement of first responder identification. Our approach was developed in collaboration with mental health organizations such as\u00a0Save.org<\/a>\u00a0and with input from people who have had personal experience thinking about or attempting suicide.<\/p>\n
Community Outreach<\/b>
\nIn March, we convened our\u00a0Facebook Safety Summit<\/a>, with more than 100 organizations, researchers, experts and teens to talk about a wide range of topics \u2014 from issues of safety and technology, to how tech is impacting our well-being. We\u2019ve also partnered with\u00a0Scholastic and Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0to develop and launch \u201cBest Selves\u201d social and emotional learning curriculum designed to give teachers easy to use lessons that help students develop pro-social behaviors; and worked with\u00a0Stand for Children<\/a>, Harvard\u2019s Making Caring Common and other experts to develop \u201ckindness\u201d curriculum and launch\u00a0Kind Schools Challenge<\/a>\u00a0which enrolls middle schools in teaching 30 days of kindness curriculum.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just about the time people spend on Facebook and Instagram but how they spend that time. It\u2019s our responsibility to talk openly about how time online impacts people \u2014 and we take that responsibility seriously. These new tools are an important first step, and we are committed to continuing our work to foster safe, kind and supportive communities for everyone.<\/p>\n
These updates are rolling out soon on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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