Kicking the Facebook habit — even for a month — might make you healthier and happier
Cutting Facebook out of your life even temporarily turns out to have consequences — and many of them are positive. Last year, Stanford researches asked thousands of Facebook users how much they would need to be paid to give up their account for a month. Among the key findings: People who gave up Facebook spent less time overall online; they were less informed, but also less politically polarized; there was positive impact on people's health and well-being; and the study subjects said they planned to spend less time on Facebook in the future. "This isn't the first study to explore the health effects of social networks. But in a world where Facebook is now used by more than 2.3 billion people per month, studying its impact on mental health, news distribution, and tech addition has never been more important." [ Kurt Wagner / Recode ] Calling his former boss "a racist...
