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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 April 2016 04:10:28PM 1 point [-]

Amazon famously found that 100ms faster page generation increased sales by 1%. It seems like this mechanism should also be able to used in the other direction. People who want to use facebook less often might benefit from increasing page-loading time on facebook by 1 second.

Is there any existing program that can do this? The program could also be configured in a way that allows automatically raising the lag if you spent more than 15 minutes at facebook.

Comment author: Viliam 20 April 2016 07:40:26AM *  1 point [-]

People who want to use facebook less often might benefit from increasing page-loading time on facebook by 1 second.

My Firefox often slows down horribly when opening Facebook, and I don't see myself procrastinating less. It makes me angry when it happens, but I stay and wait until the page is loaded. (Or go drink some water while it is loading, etc.)

Could it perhaps be a difference between random slowing down and predictable slowing down?

Comment author: ChristianKl 20 April 2016 06:02:59PM 0 points [-]

I don't see myself procrastinating less

Do you have an accurate view of how much you are using facebook? Do you have hard data, and know how it changes?