Facebook to introduce 'time well spent' features for smartphones

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Facebook will add time well spent features to its app

Facebook is to embrace the "time well spent" movement to encourage people to monitor the amount of time they spend on social media with new tools for the Facebook app.

Facebook is now working on a feature that will let users monitor their time on its app and set time limits, after announcing the social media giant would focus on more "meaningful interactions" on its site earlier this year. 

The feature, revealed by developer Jane Manchun Wong, will show the amount of time users spend on Facebook each day, give users the ability to set daily time limit reminders and change notification setting from the site.

The new tools follow a similar feature from Facebook-owned Instagram, which announced...

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