Facebook researchers found 1 in 8 users – about 360 million people – are addicted to the app damaging their work, relationships and sleep, documents suggest

Facebook‘s own researchers found that around 1 in 8 of the social network’s 2.9 billion users have addiction-like problems, according to a report.

The problems associated with using the platform are said to affect users’ sleep, work, parenting or relationships.

The social media platform euphemistically calls the issues ‘problematic use’ but in the wider world it is more commonly known as ‘internet addiction.’

The usage patterns are ‘perceived by users to be worse on Facebook than any other major social media platform, which all seek to keep users coming back,’ according to the report as seen by the Wall Street Journal.

The information was all contained in documents leaked to the press part of the Journal’s Facebook Files, a trove of reporting based on internal documents provided by whistleblower Frances Haugen who testified before Congress last month.

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