Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Effect of Deactivating <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> on Users’ Emotional State<br>People who deactivated Facebook for 6wk before election reported a 0.060 standard deviation improvement in happiness, depression, and anxiety, relative to controls who deactivated for just 1 of those six weeks. People who deactivated Instagram reported a 0.041 standard deviation improvement relative to controls. Analysis suggests Facebook was driven by people over 35, Instagram was women under 25.<br><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w33697" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nber.org/papers/w33697</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>