Hertz: Stanford study showed deactivating Facebook reduces loneliness and increases socializing
Noreena Hertz · #114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness · Jun 29, 2021 · at 6:43
Economist and author Noreena Hertz discusses empirical evidence proving social media causally drives loneliness with Shane Parrish.
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“And there was a landmark study that was carried out by Stanford University about a year and a half ago, a real gold standard of a study where they had 3000 participants, 1500 in a control group, and the other 1500 were expressly charged to go off, in this case, Facebook. The results were very clear. The group who went off Facebook for two months were significantly less lonely, significantly happier, and interestingly spent significantly more time doing things in person with friends and family, so it wasn't that they just migrated onto other platforms.”
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