The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being

By Morten Tromholt. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2016

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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The Longitudinal Association Between Social-Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents and Young Adults: An Empirical Reply to Twenge et al. (2018) (2019, background): “They also reported results from a short-term experimental study that found that giving up Facebook for a week increased positive emotions (Tromholt, 2016; see also Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2014).”
Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures (2020, background): “On the individual side, frequent or passive users may benefit from cessation, as a 1-week break from Facebook increased these users’ life satisfaction and positive emotions (Tromholt, 2016).”
How and Why Social Media Affect Subjective Well-Being: Multi-Site Use and Social Comparison as Predictors of Change Across Time (2020, result): “2015), and asking participants to quit Facebook for one week led to increases in life satisfaction and positive affect, relative to those who continued to use Facebook (Tromholt 2016).”
Online social media fatigue and psychological wellbeing - A study of compulsive use, fear of missing out, fatigue, anxiety and depression (2018, result): “Most of the prior studies were conducted in industrialised Asian countries, for example South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China (Lee, Chou, & Huang, 2014; Lin, 2015; Luqman et al., 2017; Zhang et al., 2016), and some western countries, such as the US and Denmark (Cramer et al., 2016; Tromholt, 2016).”
Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time (2018, background): “Those who gave up Facebook reported fewer depres sive symptoms at the end of the week than those still using Facebook, suggesting that Facebook use causes higher depressive symptoms (Tromholt, 2016).”
Experimentally manipulating social media abstinence: results of a four-week diary study (2019, methodology): “More research is needed to determine the causal effect of social media abstinence, but it is notable that the results of the present investigation suggest such effects are substantially smaller than those reported in some experimental research (e.g., Tromholt, 2016).”
Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction (2020, background): “A randomized experimental study by Tromholt (2016) found that when Facebook users were asked to give up their use of Facebook, they experienced fewer symptoms of depression aweek later compared to those who continued to use Facebook.”
Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age: Facts, Fears and Future Directions (2020, positive): “In this study, those assigned to take a Facebook break reported greater life satisfaction and more positive emotions compared to the control condition who continued their Facebook use as usual (Tromholt, 2016).”
The Social Media Party: Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), Social Media Intensity, Connection, and Well-Being (2020, neutral): “© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Kross et al., 2013; Tromholt, 2016; Twenge, Joiner, Rogers, & Martin, 2018; Woods & Scott, 2016).”
Associations between screen time and lower psychological well-being among children and adolescents: Evidence from a population-based study (2018, background): “, 2017) and that abstaining from social media use for one week can increase well-being (Tromholt, 2016).”
No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression (2018, background): “Subjects were required to have Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat accounts”