Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
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Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#2https://archive.is/egPlc
“The research that we’ve seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a congressional hearing...
“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues. “Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” said another slide. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”
From what researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board.
Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#3There should be a term for things we know on an instinctive level that we can use to guide our decision making.
Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#4There should be a term for things we know on an instinctive level that we can use to guide our decision making.
The term is 'gut' ask in 'I know it in my gut' or 'gut check.'
Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#5https://archive.is/egPlc “The research that we’ve seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a congressional hearing... “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues. “Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiet…
This shows how a statement can be factually true and completely disingenuous at the same time.
Yes 1/3 are effected badly but we just say that it can have positive effects. Just omitting the fact that it often has a detrimental effect…
Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#6https://archive.is/egPlc “The research that we’ve seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a congressional hearing... “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues. “Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiet…
Mark’s use of the word “can” is what makes it technically not perjury.
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Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#8There should be a term for things we know on an instinctive level that we can use to guide our decision making.
Intuition
“ a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.”
Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#9The daily usage numbers by these teens are fairly remarkable.
Does any major government fund public research into social media addiction in the youth?
Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
#10The daily usage numbers by these teens are fairly remarkable. Does any major government fund public research into social media addiction in the youth?
Where have you been for the last 10 years? And it’s not just youth. It’s adults too.