Research has found that SNS usage has many benefits, mainly through increasing one’s social capital which positively affects self-esteem and subjective well-being (SWB), but it can also be detrimental to SWB. Taking a vacation from social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Instagram is a relatively new phenomenon, whereby people disconnect from one or all of their SNS for a period of time. The contact person is below: Mrs Jo-Ann Sozou Research Officer University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Tel: (+612) 6773 3449įunding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Data are available from the UNE Human Research Ethics Committee at or by contacting the corresponding author. The University of New England Human Research Ethics Committee gave permission for us to provide data to reviewers but not to share this publicly, as this was not on our original ethics application form. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: Some of the Rescuetime data (who accessed sites and did not comply with study) is unable to be shared as it contained identifying information including personal email addresses and social networking site membership details. Received: OctoAccepted: Published: June 6, 2019Ĭopyright: © 2019 Hanley et al. PLoS ONE 14(6):Įditor: Jarosław Jankowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology, POLAND We suggest that SNS users should be educated in the benefits of an active usage style and that future research should consider the possibility of SNS addiction among more active users.Ĭitation: Hanley SM, Watt SE, Coventry W (2019) Taking a break: The effect of taking a vacation from Facebook and Instagram on subjective well-being. This result is contrary to popular expectation, and indicates that SNS usage can be beneficial for active users. Surprisingly, at post-test the SNS vacation resulted in lower positive affect for active users and had no significant effects for passive users. At pre-test, more active SNS use was found to correlate positively with life satisfaction and positive affect, whereas more passive SNS use correlated positively with life satisfaction, but not positive affect. Subjective well-being (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) was measured before and after the vacation period. Usage style was identified at pre-test, and SNS users with a more active or more passive usage style were assigned in equal numbers to the conditions of one-week SNS vacation ( n = 40) or no SNS vacation ( n = 38). Usage amount was measured objectively, using RescueTime software, to circumvent issues of self-report. Many people therefore consider taking an “SNS vacation.” We investigated the effects of a one-week vacation from both Facebook and Instagram on subjective well-being, and whether this would vary for passive or active SNS users. Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Instagram have relocated a large portion of people’s social lives online, but can be intrusive and create social disturbances.
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