In one study, participants kept a daily log of time spent doing 19 different activities during weeks when they were and were not asked to abstain from using social media. Hall's research interrogates that cultural belief. “No matter what the technology is,” says Hall, there is always a “cultural belief that it's replacing face-to-face time with our close friends and family.”
“This issue of displacement has gone on for more than 100 years,” says Jeffrey Hall, PhD, director of the Relationships and Technology Lab at the University of Kansas. įears about social displacement are longstanding, as old as the telephone and probably older. One particularly pernicious concern is whether time spent on social media sites is eating away at face-to-face time, a phenomenon known as social displacement. While the research is still in its early years - Facebook itself only celebrated its 15 th birthday this year - media psychology researchers are beginning to tease apart the ways in which time spent on these platforms is, and is not, impacting our day-to-day lives. Growth in the number of people who use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat and other social media platforms - and the time spent on them-has garnered interest and concern among policymakers, teachers, parents, and clinicians about social media's impacts on our lives and psychological well-being. Whereas only five percent of adults in the United States reported using a social media platform in 2005, that number is now around 70 percent. Social media use has skyrocketed over the past decade and a half.
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