The Secret to Being Happier: Quitting Facebook For 99 Days? A campaign called 99 Days of Freedom is daring Facebook users to take a summer detox from the addictive social network. However, not everyone has what it takes to go three months without logging on to check their newsfeed for friends selfies, relationship updates and vacation snaps. The campaign, which launched earlier this week, has so far encouraged just 2,600 of Facebooks 1 billion active users to take a vow of abstinence. The initiative comes as a response to Facebooks mood experiment on 700,000 users, said Merijn Straathof, the art director at Just, the Netherlands-based creative agency behind the 99 Days of Freedom idea. Facebook is an incredible platform, were all fiercely loyal users and we believe that theres a lot to love about the service, he said. But we we also feel that there are obvious emotional benefits to moderation. Our prediction is that the experiment will yield a lot of positive personal experiences and, 99 days from now, well know whether that theory has legs, he added. If the average user spends 17 minutes per day on Facebook and completes the challenge, they will have an extra 28 hours of freedom to pursue other activities, Straathof said. While its still early in the challenge, Straathof said participants have reported a rough day one, while others have said theyre much happier spending the extra time reading or going outside. ~ (ABC News)
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:36:14 +0000
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