Proof that we are driven to distraction by social media

When updating your status on Twitter, Facebook, or checking LinkedIn while at work, seems to prove what you already know in the new survey. Productivity decreases. Computer professor Tony State University's computer professor Stony Brooks discovered that social media sirens could even interfere with the most skilled multitasking.

"The use of personal social media can adversely affect efficiency and happiness," he concluded with a report.

Professor Brooks asked unnamed university business school students to watch a 15 minute video on a computer and at the same time left a lot of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on. Participants were monitored to check the frequency of social media checking and video content testing. People who use these sites are not as good in performance as people using that site.

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For those who want to use it in the workplace, it is obviously impractical to abandon social media. Alex Mahon, former CEO of the TV program production company Shine Group, is a social media enthusiast, but I learned to control time and attention. She is a fan of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Google+, but I made a change three years ago after reading William Powers' Hamlet Blackberry.

"This is a very thought-provoking book, about how to make constant contacts and how it creates a chaotic distraction world," she said.

Facebook is "what has happened" and Twitter is "what happened now". She took a one-on-one communication with Pinterest and reduced her content to Facebook. "I noticed that I were wasting emotional energy to wait for reply, then I stopped the phone and please use 10 times." Instead she got a site on the PC once every few days I am using her new free time to read and use novels.

Her biggest help is SaneBox's email. "This means that all these media messages and alerts, interactions, and the attraction of my eBay purchase and all my professional news alerts are filtered into separate electronic folders." so" ". She checks 100 messages everyday received in this folder twice a day.

These improvements mean Mahon uses her social media more carefully and controls her as it participates. She suggested: "If you feel this is bad, then disconnect it." "Frequent connection does not necessarily make you feel skilled by interacting with people" .

Professor Brooks answered. The people he is studying are not only angry, they also have "high level technical pressure and low happiness"

As you can see from our report on distracting circumstances, social media is the main reason most people distract. Believe it or not, ordinary Internet users are wasting their 5 and 4 month life on social media! Given this, the popularity of SelfControl and AntiSocial applications is not surprising. Using the SelfControl application for iOS, you can create a blacklist of sites that you think are most distracting and can point out the required focus time. The app will block access to these sites. Alternatively, you can create a website whitelist that only has access to those websites. The reason for making SelfControl cool (and at the same time frustrating) is that once started it can not be stopped unless the computer is restarted.

If you are distracted from social media sites, you can benefit from using SelfControl or AntiSocial. These apps will block access to social media sites and other distracting sites based on your requirements. Just select the site you want to block and specify the period you want to block. For those who rely on social media, pageblockers can wonder. If you are not ready to disable all push notifications, try the recently released Thrive App. Designed to block notifications, apps, calls, and text, it is freed from technical madness when reconnecting yourself and the world around you. The great thing about this application is that you can list the list of VIP users and that calls and messages are always passed. In addition, because this app can send automatic responses to people trying to contact you, they know that you are spending time for yourself, you are not ignoring them It is.