{"id":5346,"date":"2020-03-22T01:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T01:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2020-03-22T01:19:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T01:19:45","slug":"healthier-and-happier-without-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/healthier-and-happier-without-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthier and happier without Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Not necessary to give it up altogether; but using Facebook for just a good hour every day may be best for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is according to a group headed by Dr. Julia Brailovskaia, who published a study highlighting these results in the journal &#8220;<em>Computers in Human Behavior<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research team recruited 286 people for the study who were on Facebook for an average of at least 25 minutes a day. The average usage time per day was a good hour. The researchers subdivided the test persons into two groups: the control group comprised of 146 people used Facebook as usual. The other 140 people reduced their Facebook usage by 20 minutes a day for two weeks, which is about one third of the average usage time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All participants were tested prior to the study, one week into it, at the end of the two-week experiment, and finally one month and three months later. Using online questionnaires, the research team surveyed the way they used Facebook, their well-being and their lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results showed: participants in the group that had reduced their Facebook usage time used the platform less, both actively and passively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is significant, because passive use in particular leads to people comparing themselves with others and thus experiencing envy and a reduction in psychological well-being,&#8221; says Julia Brailovskaia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants who reduced their Facebook usage time, moreover, smoked fewer cigarettes than before, were more active physically and showed fewer depressive symptoms than the control group. Their life satisfaction increased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After the two-week period of Facebook detox, these effects, i.e. the improvement of well-being and a healthier lifestyle, lasted until the final checks three months after the experiment,&#8221; points out Julia Brailovskaia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the researchers this is an indication that simply reducing the amount of time spent on Facebook every day could be enough to prevent addictive behavior, increase well-being and support a healthier lifestyle. &#8220;It&#8217;s not necessary to give up the platform altogether,&#8221; concludes Julia Brailovskaia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not necessary to give it up altogether; but using Facebook for just a good hour every day may be best for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1730,2048,2218,848,2311],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","category-spotlight","tag-addiction","tag-good-life","tag-high-life","tag-mental-health","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}