In the paper “What Do Metrics Want?”, Ben Grosser, the creator of Facebook Demetricator, mentioned that analytics such as how many things user like per hour, and how many ads they click each day are hidden from users as displaying such metrics would cause users less likely to participate. I found this concept to be interesting and decided to implement a Google Chrome extension that shows statistics about a user’s daily Facebook usage.
This Chrome extension allow users to limit themselves to a number of Facebook posts/comments likes a day, so that they will like more sparingly. Also, it shows users how much time they have spent on the Facebook page and they will know how much time could have been put to better use.
Facebook Usage Stats is a Chrome extension that:
- Limits the amount of item someone can like on Facebook daily.
- Shows you the amount of time you spend on Facebook.
- Navigate to chrome://extensions in your browser.
- Check the "Developer mode" checkbox at the top right.
- Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the folder containing this repository.