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U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by scotty79 »

fafqg wrote: post #9
majikaja wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Meta partnered with hospitals and biotech firms and entered the plastic surgery business I think they could make a lot of money. They've already come this far in exploiting people, why stop?

I don't agree that this is Meta's fault. They gave females a window to the world and that made them depressed. Does this mean Meta should just close shop? Are they responsible for the mental health of their users?

Maybe they should? What is the benefit of having them continue and does it outweigh the cost?

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by krapp »

scotty79 wrote: post #23
lakeshastina wrote: post #16

Those years during high school are a very challenging time in one’s life, when we develop into adults. The fundamental question of “Who am I? Where do I fit into society?” are subconsciously trying to get answered. On the other side, in the west, we have a very body-centered idea of self-worth, exaggerated by TV, music and social media. Fundamentally, I do not see this situation getting any better because of how soci…

> Fundamentally, I do not see this situation getting any better because of how society is wired right now. It think tight regulation of advertisement industry could help. They really have all the incentive to make people feel worse. It directly translates to their income. There should be pre-publishing check on every advert. Like a focus group paid for by advertiser, but organized by government body. If it makes peop…

>Advertisement is not a free speech.

Yes it obviously is. Even advertisements that make people feel bad are free speech.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by majikaja »

fafqg wrote: post #9
majikaja wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Meta partnered with hospitals and biotech firms and entered the plastic surgery business I think they could make a lot of money. They've already come this far in exploiting people, why stop?

I don't agree that this is Meta's fault. They gave females a window to the world and that made them depressed. Does this mean Meta should just close shop? Are they responsible for the mental health of their users?

I guess one has to be somewhat ill to use such platforms in the first place.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by andylynch »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #6

How about spend less time on Instagram and TikTok and more in nature?

Difficult when you live like many do in car-centric areas, and rely on others for transport which may also not be affordable or convenient. See also the perpetual complaints about teenagers ’loitering’ in parks etc, and also sales of those same parks to developers by cash-strapped local authorities in many, many places.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by scotty79 »

krapp wrote: post #32
scotty79 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Fundamentally, I do not see this situation getting any better because of how society is wired right now. It think tight regulation of advertisement industry could help. They really have all the incentive to make people feel worse. It directly translates to their income. There should be pre-publishing check on every advert. Like a focus group paid for by advertiser, but organized by government body. If it makes peop…

>Advertisement is not a free speech. Yes it obviously is. Even advertisements that make people feel bad are free speech.

It shouldn't be and whoever decided it is should have that reversed.

"The Supreme Court extended First Amendment free speech protection to commercial speech in Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. (1976). The court held that commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment because it serves the public interest by providing information about products and services."

And since it became apparent that it's not the only thing it does, but also hurts people and leads to destruction of social and natural environment that decision should get reversed after 46 years. Especially since technology enabled us to have a single all encompassing catalog of products and services which customers can draw such information from whenever they request it instead of advertisements being shoved into their faces from all sources causing them psychological harm at no small cost to the economy.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by gonzo41 »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #6

How about spend less time on Instagram and TikTok and more in nature?

Complicated problem. Some of the people who read this site, work day in and out to ensure that doesn't happen. When you're pay is connected with not solving a problem it's pretty hard to solve it.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by ChatGTP »

fafqg wrote: post #9
majikaja wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Meta partnered with hospitals and biotech firms and entered the plastic surgery business I think they could make a lot of money. They've already come this far in exploiting people, why stop?

I don't agree that this is Meta's fault. They gave females a window to the world and that made them depressed. Does this mean Meta should just close shop? Are they responsible for the mental health of their users?

They gave people beauty filters too.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by Planktonne »

bobitsaboy wrote: post #21
egeozcan wrote: post #10

> More than 1 in 10 (14%) had ever been forced to have sex 14% of all the teenage girls are raped? How is this possible? I'm really not the one to grab the pitchfork first for sure but this... I don't know... How are we okay with this?

I'd have to assume that this could include anything from what they felt was some amount of coercion or pressure to have sex up to rape.

'Some amount of pressure or coercion' is still rape; no matter how you use language to minimise it, it adds an amount of 'non-' to the 'consenual'.

Re: U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence

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Post by markrankin »

dotandgtfo wrote: post #22
jdthedisciple wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am 100% with you. Parents should have the right and responsibility to monitor and regulate their children's consumption of aforementioned tools.

Yes, personal responsibility™ is the root cause here. Not corporations that have been making hyper addictive applications and maximising engagement for profit. While I don't blame anyone solely, there's lots of blame to go around - solely blaming the parents doesn't hold up. Kids are ostracized if they don't have a smartphone, don't have TikTok, and don't have YouTube. It's easy to blame the parents, but it's unreaso…

I studied Human Geography in my undergrad. Our prof predicted a social media crash would be around 2050 due to declining global population. However, I think this crash is coming quicker than we thought in 2012.

The digital twin isn’t in real time, only near real time with some lag.

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