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| Sucked into a "Facebook Hole" – Perception of Time is Altered When We're Online
So TRUE! via Daily Mail: If you've ever popped on to Facebook for a quick look, and then realised you've been there for an hour, don't worry - scientists say it's not your fault. Researchers have revealed that when we go online, we really do lose track of time. They say Facebook is the worst offender, and that users suffer an 'impaired perception of time.' 'We found evidence that Internet and Facebook related stimuli can distort time perception due to attention and arousal related mechanisms,' the University of Kent psychologists wrote in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 'This highlights that Facebook related stimuli lead to an overestimation of time compared to Internet related stimuli, and both Facebook and Internet related stimuli were associated with better discriminability of time compared to matched neutral stimuli.' The team from the University's School of Psychology found that the way people perceived time varied according to whether their internet use was specifically