Leaving Facebook seems to be in vogue at the moment, after the social network’s data collection policies have become more transparent.
But while there are good reasons to be on Facebook and good reasons to leave it, a team of researchers has been compiling evidence to see what happens when people stop signing in for awhile.
The team, from Stanford University in the US, paid some users to drop Facebook for a period of four weeks and asked others to give it up using just their own self-control.
The resulting study – The Welfare Effects of Social Media – has a few things to say about behaviour away from the social network. Read more