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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

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Post by futureproofd »

What are the rules / law for identifying an instagram post as an ad? If this isn't enforceable then young people don't stand a chance against the insidious nature of marketing.

In the 90's, "cool-hunters" would hire street promoters to hype brands one-on-one, directly to the consumer. These promoters were often friends of the consumers, who essentially became walking adverts for . Sounds a bit like the company "Influenceter". It's always been a goal of advertising to capture the minds of the youth culture. Facebook just does it to scale.

Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

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Post by zepto »

germinalphrase wrote: post #484
zepto wrote: post #440

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Guns are widely available to anyone who wants to break the law. The claim that this is because people can drive to others states is false. For everyone else, how available they are depends on where you live.

Yes, I agree with everything your are saying. On a practical level, guns are available to anyone who wants one. Regional and city level restrictions only create a mild level of friction.

> On a practical level, guns are available to anyone who wants one.

For the law abiding, that’s not true in places where you need a license just to buy one such as NYC, or in CA where most handguns and many rifles are not available.

Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

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Post by _bfhp »

yawaworht1978 wrote: post #88

Not girls fault(too young too know) not facebooks (they know but don't force it on anyone, society does) fault. Parents fault. It's hard to raise kids, it's hard to be a parent, it's very hard to raise a good kid. It's always been like that, just amplified by a factor of 100k with apps being with you at all times. Kids are easy impressed by superficial things, try your best so your kid does not fall victim to this. N…

Facebook can do things to reduce dynamics that they know are harmful to children, just like they remove (some) content that is clearly harmful to children but not illegal. They just don't, which is their choice.

Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

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Post by ssully »

uniqueid wrote: post #459
standardUser wrote: post #449

It used to be that if you were queer - in any sense of the word - and lived in one of the countless small, conservative, traditional communities in this country, you were shit out of luck. Now, thanks to the internet, there exists inclusive and positive communities for people of every type of background and experience. This simply did not exist for most people just a few decades ago, but now it's accessible to almost…

It used to be that if you were queer - in any sense of the word - and lived in one of the countless small, conservative, traditional communities in this country, you were shit out of luck. As bad as that was, in the past you could move to another of the 380,000 towns on this planet. Today, if your social media trail renders you unemployable (or the target of persecution) there's no longer any corner of the planet to…

Kind of wild to say gay people actually didn't have it that bad, and that getting cancelled today is actually worse.

Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

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Post by Reubachi »

makeworld wrote: post #474
jlkuester7 wrote: post #472

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Wait, what? Why should intellectual homogeneity be a requirement (or expectation) for coworkers? That seems like the opposite of encouraging diversity.

The key word is "tolerate". If you're gay, you're going to want to be hired by someone who will tolerate you being gay, otherwise you'll have to hide part of yourself and/or be fearful at work.

but...in a perfect world this isn't a question, "Will my employer tolerate my sexuality at work". Do you have to hide being straight at work? If so, I don't think we have the same idea of what work is. (the royal you, not you specifically. I think a lot of people think this way.)

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Post by imilk »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #240
wussboy wrote: post #200

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This is a very interesting point. As someone who wants to start an organization with a very strong mission statement, it brings a sense of caution. Is it the mission statement itself which is dangerous? Or is it possible to come up with a "good" one?

Mission statement: WWJD (I was joking with the comment, but I'm not so sure now.)

What would jeffrey dahmer do?

Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

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Post by standardUser »

uniqueid wrote: post #459
standardUser wrote: post #449

It used to be that if you were queer - in any sense of the word - and lived in one of the countless small, conservative, traditional communities in this country, you were shit out of luck. Now, thanks to the internet, there exists inclusive and positive communities for people of every type of background and experience. This simply did not exist for most people just a few decades ago, but now it's accessible to almost…

It used to be that if you were queer - in any sense of the word - and lived in one of the countless small, conservative, traditional communities in this country, you were shit out of luck. As bad as that was, in the past you could move to another of the 380,000 towns on this planet. Today, if your social media trail renders you unemployable (or the target of persecution) there's no longer any corner of the planet to…

Humiliation, bullying, shame, abuse.... these things have been inflicted upon millions of young people generation after generation just because they didn't fit a very narrow mold.

But you want me to shed a tear for who exactly? People who wrote hateful things and chose to share them with the public? Those are the very people dishing out the humiliation and shame and abuse. I for one am very happy that those behaviors are no longer tolerated like they were for so many generations.

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pmarreck wrote: post #406
dweekly wrote: post #337

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"Foods containing sugar have been found to save lives in a number of studies." "Regular smoking use is associated with lower BMI, which is shown to correlate with improved heart health and lower mortality rates." "Use of fossil fuels powers a number of ecology-preserving tasks, allowing us to care for the environment in a way we could not without this amazing source of Earth-loving fuel."

Love it. It still needs a name. Here let me try: Disproportionate benefit insinuation error: Implying (without explicitly stating that it has more benefits than disadvantages because that would be a disprovable lie) that because something has some benefit, it is overall helpful. Or just "plausible deniability"- factually stating the existence of a beneficial tree, but omitting mention of the harmful forest Or just "c…

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Post by ptr2voidStar »

thewarrior wrote: post #490
blakesterz wrote: post #2

https://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…

I find it interesting that Instagram promoting celebrity culture has provoked such a backlash but the Chinese governments attempts to tackle the same on their streaming platforms is seen as misguided.

How dare you shine a torch on our blindspot!

Re: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

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Post by foldr »

tommymachine wrote: post #481
makeworld wrote: post #474

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The key word is "tolerate". If you're gay, you're going to want to be hired by someone who will tolerate you being gay, otherwise you'll have to hide part of yourself and/or be fearful at work.

They used to call keeping your personal life separate from work "being professional". Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here... don't most companies hire people to do a job, not to flaunt who they are in their private lives in a distracting manner?

Yes. I am so sick of hearing straight people talking about their spouses and children in a professional context.

Political correctness has reached such extremes that we were expected to make contributions to a gift for one of my straight colleagues after he announced to the whole team that his opposite sex partner was pregnant. I really wish people would keep their sexual predilections to themselves.

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