Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, which we now call Meta, participated in Joe Rogan’s podcast called “Joe Rogan Experience”. Making statements about the agenda and of course the social media platform, Zuckerberg made a remarkable exit. According to Zuckerberg, social media should be used to build relationships with people, not to pass time.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are useful services as long as they increase human interaction. But this is not the case when this is not done and only things are looked at. “I don’t want people to spend more time with computers. I want people to spend more time with screens.” Using the expression Zuckerberg, with this statement, he explained the direction he wants both Metaverse investments and social media platforms to go.

Science thinks like Mark Zuckerberg

As a matter of fact, Mark Zuckerberg is not wrong to think so. A study by Harvard University revealed that social media is beneficial for people under certain conditions. So much so that when using social media, being in contact with people, that is, commenting on posts or messaging, increases people’s happiness level and improves their mental health. Otherwise, for example, if only empty content was viewed on social media and it was thought that it was not possible to spend time without social media, this would adversely affect mental health.

However, it is a well-known fact that excessive use of social media is harmful. Moreover, social media platform developers are aware of this. For example, with a feature developed for Instagram, the possibility of limiting the usage time was provided. In this way, users began to see notifications to stop using the platform when they reached the time they set.