Friday, December 19, 2025
ADVT 
Tech

Can you shun Facebook for 99 days?

Darpan News Desk IANS, 10 Jul, 2014 11:54 AM
    What if you are asked to perform a different kind of fasting - to log out from Facebook for 99 days!
     
    Do not fret as this is a challenge set out by a Dutch creative agency Just.
     
    Called "99 Days of Freedom", the non-profit initiative asks whether people would be happier without Facebook.
     
    It asks users to give up Facebook for a 99-day period, completing anonymous happiness surveys on days 33, 66 and 99.
     
    According to Facebook, a user spends an average of 17 minutes a day on the social networking service.
     
    For 99 days, it would mean 28 productive hours that can be used to learn some new skill, the agency said.
     
    "We found that users have at least a 'complicated' relationship with Facebook," Merjin Straathof, art director at Just, was quoted as saying in media reports.
     
    Then, after seeing the news of Facebook's controversial emotion study, the agency launched this challenge.
     
    "We landed on a 99-day period, hoping that such interaction will serve as a support group of sorts," Straathof added.

    MORE Tech ARTICLES

    Intimacy 2.0: This dress goes transparent as you are turned on!

    Intimacy 2.0: This dress goes transparent as you are turned on!
    Wear this dress very, very carefully as it goes transparent the moment you are sexually aroused. Aptly named 'Intimacy 2.0', the dress gets transparent when the wearer is aroused.

    Intimacy 2.0: This dress goes transparent as you are turned on!

    Coming Soon, 'touch' secure smart phones, tabs

    Coming Soon, 'touch' secure smart phones, tabs
    Afraid of losing important data saved in your smart phone or tablet? Not to worry any more as researchers - including an Indian-American scientist - from the Georgia Institute of Technology have gone a step further from passwords, gestures or fingerprint scans.

    Coming Soon, 'touch' secure smart phones, tabs

    'Australia' discovered on Mars!

    'Australia' discovered on Mars!
    This is just another example of Martian pareidolia - a psychological phenomenon that tricks your brain into seeing familiar objects in apparently random shapes - but the similarity is uncanny.

    'Australia' discovered on Mars!

    Want a slimmer Selfie? Use this cool App

    Want a slimmer Selfie? Use this cool App
    Called SkinneePix, the app helps you look thinner thnan you are as it reduces the face with a detection technology to trim off 5, 10 or 15 pounds with just the click of a button.

    Want a slimmer Selfie? Use this cool App

    Must for men! Gift app can win you her love

    Must for men! Gift app can win you her love
    Confused what to gift your wife or girlfriend on their birthday? Download this unique app to eliminate the guesswork when buying a gift to bring a smile on their faces - and peace in your life!

    Must for men! Gift app can win you her love

    Get that grocery home by app? Amazon!

    Get that grocery home by app? Amazon!
    Tired of juggling to park your car as you approach the supermarket to finish weekend shopping for kitchen? Better download this app that would work as a virtual servant for you.

    Get that grocery home by app? Amazon!