Facebook and Instagram have launched tools to help users manage their time on the social sites: an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and a new way to limit notifications. The companies have developed these tools based on collaboration and inspiration from leading mental health experts and organizations, academics, and their own research and feedback from their community.  

Users can access the tools through their settings page on either app. On Instagram, tap “Your Activity,” and on Facebook, tap “Your Time on Facebook.” At the top, the user will see a dashboard showing their average time for that app on that device. Below the dashboard, users can now set a daily reminder to give them an alert when they have reached the amount of time they want to be spent on that app for that day. The reminder can be changed or altered at any time. Users can also tap on “Notification Settings” to quickly access the new “Mute Push Notifications” setting. This button limits Instagram or Facebook notifications for a period of time.

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