mbirth 🇬🇧

Collector of social media accounts. Speaks 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.

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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • John List, a professor at the University of Chicago, recruited 6,000 participants for a study. With permission, he installed tracking software on their phones. And then he made them an offer: for every hour that the participant did not use Facebook or Instagram, he would pay them $4. (Participants only had to give up one app; the Facebook holdout group was allowed to use Instagram and vice versa.)

    Initial results:

    Facebook → YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    Instagram → YouTube, Facebook, TikTok

    Corrected for time spent on platforms:

    Facebook → Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat
    Instagram → TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat