• Skip to content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

X-Blogs

Technology Blogs

  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimers
  • DMCA
  • Contact Us
  • Submit your story

You are here: Home / facebook / Facebook and Instagram are making it easier to spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. But why?

Facebook and Instagram are making it easier to spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. But why?

August 1, 2018 by recode Leave a Comment

Add Facebook and Instagram to the growing list of tech giants rolling out features to cut back on your screen time. The two apps — Instagram with a billion-plus users, and Facebook with twice that many — are rolling out new “time well spent” features meant to help people fight smartphone addiction. Now you’ll be able to see how much time you spend within each app, snooze notifications for up to eight hours, and even set a timer that will alert you after you’ve spent a certain amount of time using the app on a given day. “As long as you believe that we’re developing products that people love, and that they use them frequently because they’re deriving value out of them, not because they’re addicted to it, then we’re doing our job,” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told Recode in an interview. “Okay, if that’s our mission, then the question is, ‘can we provide people tools so that they can be in control?’” The new features are similar to what Apple announced for iOS in early June, and what Google unveiled for Android in May. It gives users a way to monitor and cut down their screen time — assuming they actually want to monitor and cut down on their screen time. The features are there, but people still have to actively choose to use them. With Apple and Google, these “time well spent” features make more sense. Those companies are selling phones and operating systems. It doesn’t matter so… [Read full story]




  • This is what struck into Anand Ahuja's mind when he saw his wife Sonam Kapoor for the very first time!
  • Instagram CEO confirms upcoming “time spent” Usage Insights
  • Facebook, Instagram add tools to limit time spent on the apps
  • Facebook livestreaming gets easier with Streamlabs OBS support
  • TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last month
  • TikTok Beats Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat Downloads In October
  • Facebook is making its biggest executive shuffle in company history
  • Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter limit data access for AI-powered babysitter background checks
  • Tim Cook spends time with scholarship winners ahead of WWDC
  • Facebook, Instagram, Google, Spotify, WhatsApp and more reimagined as tech products from the 1980s

Filed Under: facebook spending time, parents spend time with child, spend time with family, spending time with family, make money spend money, spending time with family quotes, spending time with god, quotes about spending time with family, quotes about spending time with someone you love, quotes about spending time with the one you love, quotes about spending time together, quotes about spending time with loved ones, spend time together quotes, how to spend time wisely, spending time with friends status, spending time with grandparents essay, why spending time with family is important, disconnect facebook from instagram, linking instagram to facebook business page, how to make money advertising on facebook, make money without spending, connect facebook page to instagram, linking instagram to facebook page, make money ads on facebook, make money posting ads on facebook, facebook purchased instagram, facebook purchases instagram

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Primary Sidebar

Categories

1300 Men Amazon and Apple Appliances Apps article Best Headphones Business canada Celebrity News culture Drew Magary facebook Filed to: Gaming & Culture Google huawei Instagram LATEST microsoft Money NBA News NFL Opinion podcast Policy Politics Press Releases Samsung Science Sections Snacktaku Tags Tech Technology The Morning Shift the upgrade Transfer News TV News UK News US News Windows 10 World news

Recent Posts

  • ArenaNet confirms that it is laying off staff
  • Sony Xperia 1 (XZ4) Mobile Phone Leaked by Evan Blass Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2019
  • Meghan Markle’s best friend posts cryptic Instagram post after lavish baby bash
  • Bowser will replace Reggie Fils-Aimé as Nintendo of America president
  • Kim Kardashian West confirms sister Khloe is single after cheating scandal
  • Warburg Pincus sells 4.7M shares of tax automation company Avalara worth around $230M
  • Sensor Tower: Brawl Stars ranks 10th in global revenue in January after December launch
  • Samsung Galaxy S10 apparently has the smartphone camera to beat
  • This Disintegrating X Lamborghini Miura Consists of 1,500 Individual Photos Stitched Together
  • Cryptocurrency companies use ‘backdoor’ listings to ease into…

Copyright © 2019 X-Blogs. Power by Wordpress.