What i dont understand is that i always see these negative articles about "facebook". What about twitter or instagram??? It almost feels like propaganda, even though i agree with those canadians to some extend.
Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
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#62It’s interesting comparing this to internet pornography, which is bigger than FB as a whole, and which (according to youth self surveys) harms mental health (according to ~60% in some surveys).
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#63Getting a bit tired of the Facebook bashing. Everyday some posts make the front page and don't provide any new or interesting information.
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#64... and so they stopped using it.
Oh, right. That's never what follows.
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#65As a side note, I'm a little saddened when I see friends apologize for their posts. There's such a reaction to "influencer culture" that people feel like foodgrams and humblebrags are a terrible thing, and in excess they certainly can be, but I think from most people it's a billion times better than strawman political arguments and manipulative media that is far worse for our mental health than just comparing ourselv…
I really do believe there's a solution for that.
We need whatsapp/telegram/signal to display a feed based on user's status and nothing more. It's almost free, frictionless and free from ads (for now). But sharing without the widest audience (just to the social graph of your contacts).
It could bring back Google+'s circles so you don't share the same stuff with colleagues and friends and family, but your feed page would display it all the same.
Decentralized micro blogging without the huge tech cost and barrier of entry of mastodon.
People could choose how people are allowed to react to their status: limited in time, to the latest status update, limited to emoji/thumbs up reactions, allows starting new chat with that status as a topic, etc.
It also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce which I thought had some great ideas at the time.
There's no money in it though, so maybe bring back the old whatsapp model ? 1€ for 6 months or something ?
Or maybe just tell people to start a group chat in which they post updates ? Facebook/Twitter/Instagram got that easy to post/single tunnel thing simplified to the max, I don't think you can do better without being centralized.
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#66I know Facebook is the great evil, but we really need to start looking at the mental health impacts of all social media. The unhappiest people I know are not on Facebook - they are religiously devoted to Twitter and Reddit. Heck, I'd like to know what sort of damage this post right here is doing to me. This is our generation's smoking but everyone only wants to know how harmful Marlboros are. Edit: Please upvote this…
Nextdoor is another example. At least with FB or Twitter, it's a opt-in model -- you have to friend or follow someone to see their posts. With Nextdoor anyone can post to their neighbors, so (at least where I live) many people use it as a soapbox to air any trivial complaint/grump/vendetta to hundreds or thousands of neighbors; I see a lot of toxic flamewars on there.
Ultimately I think social media is an amplifier, taking whatever individual or collective insecurities that were latent, and just projecting them for better or worse.
Disclosure: FB employee but only speaking for myself
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#67I'm getting kind of tired of the narrative that "x is evil/bad/harmful, but I'm too weak (we won't admit addiction) to not use x. Everyone I know uses x. Government needs to regulate x (so I don't have to change my ways)."
I deleted my account over a year ago now, because I do view them as evil and do cause overall societal harm. It's not life ending. You'll adjust and then wonder why you didn't do it sooner. I made the choice for myself. The only people you'll lose touch with were superficial relationships to begin with. Do you honestly care what that dude you went to gradeschool with but haven't seen for 30 years does? Real relationships don't depend on x platform. All they require is you, and the other person.
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#68I used to think, untill recently, that Facebook was just a tool and all this hatred was overblown. After all, I modulated my use of it just fine. My usage is sparse, and I use messenger to talk with people I know, it kept us together. I can see how community and bringing old friends together is precious. But, recently, I realized someone I used to be very close has mental problems. Undiagnosed, but there is no other…
This happened to a family member, they had undiagnosed schizophrenia and started posting craaaaaazy stuff on YouTube, got a following of fellow like-minded folk that only made things worse until it all exploded into a huge melt down / insane asylum situation. Crazy times.
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#69As a side note, I'm a little saddened when I see friends apologize for their posts. There's such a reaction to "influencer culture" that people feel like foodgrams and humblebrags are a terrible thing, and in excess they certainly can be, but I think from most people it's a billion times better than strawman political arguments and manipulative media that is far worse for our mental health than just comparing ourselv…
Only years will tell whether FB will evolve to become a humanity+ or a humanity- company.
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#70as someone born and educated in Canada, I must say that as a nation they are some of the most feeble-minded people on Earth
"being Canadian" has devolved down to a pathetic fake-smugness predicated on cherry-picked comparisons with the US. there is NOTHING else to being a Canadian in 2021.
Canada is already the worst choice for businesses in the age of NAFTA. Zuck should just pull FB out of Canada entirely and leave Canadians with the CBC...the net impact on profits will be negligible at best, and long term it will benefit FB to be rid of these crybabies
as for everyone else, if you don't have the willpower to log out of FB, you're just pathetic on so many levels and you deserve degraded mental health