Importantly, participants in our study only turned off their Facebook or Instagram accounts. Much of the freed-up time was shifted to other smartphone apps, including other social media.
An experiment that restricted access to a wider set of apps could have had larger effects
https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/emotional_state_op_ed.pdf
Cutting the VAST majority of social media and replacing it with reading, listening to music, and talking to people, has dramatically improved my quality of life, but it really wasn’t easy.
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