Facebook will tell you how much time you spend in the app
Facebook could reveal how long we've been inside the app. To do this, the company would include a new function called "Your time on Facebook" within the service itself. It would help us to measure the time of use and thus, in this way, make a real analysis to know if we have abused the app or not. This new feature already it would have reached some users in test mode. It has been confirmed by the company itself, but we do not know if it will finally be available to all its users or they will end up discarding it.
Not much is known about this new feature at this time. The leaked screenshots indicate that it would show users the total amount of time spent per day in the app for the past seven days, as well as the average time spent every 24 hours.Likewise, it would also give users the possibility of configuring notifications so that they can control the time of use. In this way, alarms could be established when a certain time elapsed.
It is surprising that Facebook wants to launch a tool for users to know the time the application has been used. The social network makes a daily effort to invite us to enter it and spend as much time as possible. In any case, in recent times many companies are putting functions are underway so that we can better regulate the use we give to applications.Without going any further, Apple or Google have announced specific sections in their upcoming platforms, which will be used to manage the time we spend with our smartphones. It also seems that Instagram will also have a tool to keep track of the hours that we are connected to the social network.
It should also be noted that in early 2018 Mark Zuckerberg revealed that one of the company's goals for this year was to make sure that the time people spend on Facebook is "time well spent." The CEO of the social network suggested that they would begin to shift the focus to help users find relevant content and have more meaningful interactions when using the service .
The "Your Time on Facebook" feature doesn't appear to have any way to categorize how a user spends their time in the app and whether or not the time spent is "meaningful."However, people who care about the amount of time they spend in the app are more likely to look at whether or not the minutes they've spent have been worth anything.As we said, this new function is being tested and we don't know if it will end up being definitively introduced. We will inform you as soon as we have new news.
