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I've already said this before but I'll say it again...
One change I'd like to see in the World Wide Web, is the emergence of websites that can't be accessed 24 hours a day.
Maybe that's a website that's only available from 9-5 each day.
Or maybe it's a web forum that you can only post on for a one hour period every week.
Too much UX design is about pushing people to stay on websites as long as possible.
I won't need to tell you that this obviously encourages unhealthy behaviour from the people using a web service but also...
Also, it means that if a web service goes down at any time of day or night, some poor bastard has to stop whatever they are doing and spend an indeterminate amount of time trying to fix it while the whole entire userbase cries murder.
Maybe, just maybe, we can set boundaries.
Maybe an admin doesn't need to be on call at any time of day or night.
Maybe that thing that you really want to post at 3am can wait until the morning (at which point you might end up being glad that you didn't post it).
I dunno, just an idea.
Sure, it is possible to download apps that will block you personally from using other apps at certain times of day.
That doesn't deal with the FOMO aspect of knowing that everyone else is still posting and you might be missing out.
As I type that out, it sounds like a dumb thing to say. But it's true.
It's true!
That fear of missing out is a real thing lots of people experience, even you (reading this right now).
And so you keep your notifications on, you regularly check your various apps to make sure you havn't missed out.
If no-one can access a site or service at a certain time of day, though, then it's not possible to miss out.
QED