Facebook researchers found 1 in 8 users addicted to app damaging their work, relationships …

Facebook’s own researchers found that around 1 in 8 of the social network’s 2.9 billion users have addiction-like problems.The problems associated with using the platform are said to affect users’ sleep, work, parenting or relationships.The social media platform euphemistically calls the issues ‘problematic use’ but in the wider world it is more commonly known as ‘internet addiction.’  The usage patterns are ‘perceived by users to be worse on Facebook than any other major social media platform, which all seek to keep users coming back,’ according to the report as seen by the Wall Street Journal. The information was all contained in documents leaked to the press part of the Journal’s Facebook Files, a trove of reporting based on internal documents provided by whistleblower Frances Haugen who testified before Congress last month.  A Facebook survey conducted by company researchers found the social network is harmful for 1 in 8 of its users. The platform negatively impacts users sleep, work or personal relationshipsWhatever the term, the numbers involved are staggering with problems said to be affecting 12.5 percent of Facebook’s users or more than 360 million people.The researchers estimated about 10 percent of U.S. users engage in such behavior with the numbers believed to…
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