Now you can measure how much time you’ve spent on Facebook using their unit!
Apparently not content with eating up every second of our day (which, to be fair, really is more our fault than theirs), Facebook have announced that they have created a new unit of time, called a ‘Flick’.
In case you’re wondering if this is measurable by the human eye, we can tell you that it is absolutely not measurable by the human eye.
Each flick is just 1/705,600,000 of a second, and it has been designed specifically to help sync video frame rates.
We've launched Flicks, a unit of time, slightly larger than a nanosecond that exactly subdivides media frame rates and sampling frequencies. https://t.co/w9SDBznXRE
— Meta Open Source (@MetaOpenSource) January 22, 2018
The actual process behind why it needs to exist is far too complicated for us to explain, because it also far too complicated for us to understand, as it has to do with different hertz and frame-ticks.
However, the fact remains that Facebook were presented with a technological problem, and they solved that problem essentially by changing time itself.
Is there anything Facebook can’t do?
For example: can they help me get those two hours back I spent in a rabbit-hole clicking on funny pictures put up by my friend’s cousin’s niece’s neighbour’s favourite coffee barista…?
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