--- title: The Benefits of Taking Time Off From Facebook description: How a break from Facebook could boost your mood, how the GM bailout helped China, DHS's plan to create human threat detectors and more. canonical: https://time.com/4114207/benefits-time-off-from-facebook/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-16T17:01:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:55.976Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Benefits of Taking Time Off From Facebook og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4114207/benefits-time-off-from-facebook/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Benefits of Taking Time Off From Facebook twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Benefits of Taking Time Off From Facebook by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 16, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 16, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Feeling down? Take some time off…from Facebook.**](http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/10/week-off-facebook-denmark-likes-this-happiness-friends) By Helen Russell in the Guardian **2\.** [**Here’s how bailing out GM helped China.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-13/how-gm-s-bailout-became-china-s-bonanza) By Edward Niedermeyer in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**The Department of Homeland Security wants to turn every employee into a nuclear threat detector.**](http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2015/11/dhs-investing-wearables-can-detect-nuclear-threats/123474/) By Mohana Ravindranath in NextGov **4\.** [**Tax policy is boring. But it’s the best way to take on income inequality.**](http://turnitrightsideup.org/) By Ezra Levin and David Newville at the Corporation for Enterprise Development **5\.** [**Europe shouldn’t fall for the Islamic State’s trap.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hating-muslim-refugees-is-exactly-what-the-islamic-state-wants-europe-to-do/2015/11/15/dfe0ca84-87d1-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee%5Fstory.html) By Harleen Gambhir in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4114207/benefits-time-off-from-facebook/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4114207/benefits-time-off-from-facebook/"},"headline":"The Benefits of Taking Time Off From Facebook","datePublished":"2015-11-16T17:01:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:55.976Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4114207/benefits-time-off-from-facebook/","keywords":["Innovation","facebook","ISIS","Taxes","TSA","refugee","GM"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4114207/benefits-time-off-from-facebook/","name":"The Benefits of Taking Time Off From Facebook"}}]}] ```