Top Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using Facebook - Study Hacks - Cal Newport

Worth reading just to note the five highlights shared by people who deactivated Facebook. Lookin for an extra hour in your day? Here it is!

Perhaps most interesting was the disconnect between the subjects’ experience with deactivating Facebook and their prediction about how other people would react. “About 80 percent of the Treatment group agreed that deactivation was good for them,” reports the researchers. But this same group was likely to believe that others wouldn’t experience similar positive effects, as they would likely “miss out” more. The specter of FOMO, in other words, is hard to shake, even after you’ve learned through direct experience that in your own case this “fear” was largely hype.

Bold is my highlight.