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Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts

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Re: Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts

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I find it more worrying that anyone would want to support this kind of learning. These young people are not being educated on how to identify misinformation; rather, they're being indoctrinated with values that encourage virtue signaling or worse, trolling. Living inside a bubble of criticism and misinformation doesn't lead one to immediately question and then reform the system. More often, people choose to adapt to…

> Instead of pointlessly debating each other on this app, a platform designed to capture attention and manipulate emotions Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also. > these people should take time to research and then carefully write an essay. Once they are satisfied with their opinions, they could share their thesis with the public and request contes…

> Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also.

Well, I don't think television or the news paper is a good place to debate either. They do however give people more than 30 seconds to think about their responses.

Re: Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts

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I don't see it as any different to any forum, IRC channel, social network group page, or group chat in an IM. 4chan, SA, Fark, car forums, etc etc.

It's literally just teenagers making a group chat to shoot the shit. How is that anything new or controversial in any way? We did it on BBSes and IRC, then teens did it on MySpace and Facebook, now it's Instagram and Snapchat.

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