So, lots of people think using social media at work can hurt our job performance. But how do you prove that?

Good news! Someone came up with an experimental design to test it and -SURPRISE- looking at social media while at work *did* hurt work performance. (thread)

As far as I know, this is the first experimental study to evaluate the effects of #socialmedia use on job performance.

Overview here: https://aaahq.org/Outreach/Newsroom/Press-Releases/12-11-2020-Study-Shows-Social-Media-FOMO-Actively-Hurts-Job-Performance

Full study (open access) here: https://aaahq.org/Portals/0/newsroom/2020/Social_Media_Content_and_Social_Comparisons_21762_3_art_0_qhdmct.pdf?ver=2020-12-10-162734-347&timestamp=1607635689865

So, any reporters who cover business, social media, or psychology, this may be worth writing about. I thought it was pretty darn interesting.

*Full disclosure: I'm the one who wrote the release about it. But nobody paid me to tweet about it. I just think it's fascinating.