Facebook Time Quota - June 2020
- sbjct
- Jul 4, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 20, 2020
One thing I recently utilized on Facebook is the "Your Time on Facebook" feature. It can be found under Settings & Privacy, as exhibited below:
With this feature, you can set a quota time on Facebook to remind yourself, "Hey, you already spent this much time here. Slow down."
As for me, I set my quota at one hour and 30 minutes. I have no idea if this is excessive or too low—just a nominal value perhaps.
I usually get up at 7:30 AM. We are required to report at work by 8:30 AM. Of course, I also first need to prepare and eat breakfast, bathe and transition to work mode. Let's say, that takes about 30 minutes. That means I have a maximum of 30 minutes to loiter around before officially getting into work mode.
I actually practice Pomodoro Technique, which means that my work is being chopped into intervals, with short breaks in between. I usually set it at 30 minutes per work interval, and 5 minutes per post-interval break. This means that I hypothetically get five breaks from 8:30 AM to 11:55 AM. Of course, that is very hypocritical of me to say that I really achieve that undistracted schedule (haha). But let's just leave it like that for now. Then, lunch break comes from 11:55 AM to 1:00 PM, or 65 minutes. I normally check Facebook memes while eating. In the afternoon, I hypothetically have eight breaks from 1:00 PM to 6:10 PM. Then, I eat dinner. Then, I work for a little longer to make up for the time I spent on breaks.
Hypothetically, I allow myself 13 five-minute breaks during the day, on an 8:30 AM to 7:35 PM working schedule (to complete eight regular hours). I do not automatically use Facebook during breaks—sometimes I tweet, watch stock prices, read news, drink water, nap (dangerously), or not take a break at all. But as an expectation, I set my Facebook time quota at one hour and 30 minutes and expect that I hit this quota during lunch time every day.
Here are my benchmarks:
before 12:00 NN — FAILURE, because it means I loitered around too much. Waking up early is not even an excuse, because it just means I have nothing better to do with the good ol' sunshine.
between 12:00 NN and 1:00 PM — FAIR ENOUGH, as expected
between 1:00 PM and 6:10 PM — SEMI-SUCCESS, controlled distractions
after 6:00 PM — SUCCESS, it indicates that I achieved professional productivity (provided that I am not mentally breaking down, because Facebook abstinence is not the sole variable of productivity)
quota not achieved — FAILURE, because it means I drowned myself in work too much
I am sharing you my log for the month of June.
I wanted to show a bar chart or line graph, but I realized that I accumulated the wrong data. I should have kept a log of the actual time spent as well, which is also available on the feature. Unfortunately, this feature only retains that data for the current week. If the logs are remembered in an archive, I am not aware. I will just improve July's report (if I ever decide to repeat this blog content).
I guess that is all I have to share. I hope you got an insight here. I encourage everyone to utilize the Your Time on Facebook feature for whatever purpose it may serve each of us. It is cool to monitor some aspects of our lives and use them as benchmark in the future—you just might not know right now.
PS: I used "hypothetically" too much. Can't be help, because theory needs to be set for practice to follow.
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