Reducing social media usage by 30 minutes improves mental health: Report

Reducing social media usage by 30 minutes improves mental health, job satisfaction while frequent users find it difficult to focus on their work, a study has found. Researchers found that the less social media use led to the individuals feeling less overworked and lower levels of fear of missing out popularly known as FOMO on important happenings in their network when they aren't online. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum and the German Center for Mental Health, Germany, found that refraining from social media gave people more time to do their job and thus suffered less from divided attention. "Our brains can't cope well with constant distraction from a task," explained Julia Brailovskaia, author of the study published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology'. "People who frequently stop what they're doing in order to catch up on their social media feed find it more difficult to focus on their work and they achieve poorer results," said Brailovskaia. For the study