Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
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Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
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Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#2There was a related thread on the front page: TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716665
Since that article is several months old and this one is new, we swapped it out. I assume it makes more sense to discuss the new one. Also, there were lots of criticisms of the other article for supposedly focusing only on TikTok, and those criticisms seem supplanted by this piece. (I'm not arguing whether it's right or wrong, nor have I read it.)
Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#3There was a related thread on the front page: TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716665 Since that article is several months old and this one is new, we swapped it out. I assume it makes more sense to discuss the new one. Also, there were lots of criticisms of the other article for supposedly focusing only on TikTok, and those criticisms seem supplanted by this…
The same outlet did the TikTok story:
Following the format of our previous post about the “industrial scale harms” attributed to TikTok, this piece presents dozens of quotations from internal reports, studies, memos, conversations, and public statements in which Snap executives, employees, and consultants acknowledge and discuss the harms that Snapchat causes to many minors who use their platform.
Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#4There was a related thread on the front page: TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716665 Since that article is several months old and this one is new, we swapped it out. I assume it makes more sense to discuss the new one. Also, there were lots of criticisms of the other article for supposedly focusing only on TikTok, and those criticisms seem supplanted by this…
You can essentially just wildcard the social network name and everything still applies. That's the status quo
Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#5With both of these articles, are we finally getting to a tipping point with social media and its negative effects on people?
Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#6There was a related thread on the front page: TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716665 Since that article is several months old and this one is new, we swapped it out. I assume it makes more sense to discuss the new one. Also, there were lots of criticisms of the other article for supposedly focusing only on TikTok, and those criticisms seem supplanted by this…
You can essentially just wildcard the social network name and everything still applies. That's the status quo
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Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#7There was a related thread on the front page: TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716665 Since that article is several months old and this one is new, we swapped it out. I assume it makes more sense to discuss the new one. Also, there were lots of criticisms of the other article for supposedly focusing only on TikTok, and those criticisms seem supplanted by this…
You can essentially just wildcard the social network name and everything still applies. That's the status quo
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Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#8Anyone remember YikYak? I was in university at the time, the explosive growth was wild. After the inevitable bullying, racism, threats, doxxing, that came with the anonymous platform, YikYak enabled geofencing to disable the app on middle and high school grounds.
I think every social media platform with an "age limit" should be required to do this as well. And open it up, so that anyone can create their own disabling geofence on their property. How great would it be to have a snapchat free home zone? Or FB, or tiktok
Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#9With both of these articles, are we finally getting to a tipping point with social media and its negative effects on people?
I think part of it is that social media has now been around long enough that it is becoming possible to study the long term effects on our monkey brains from being constantly exposed to the lives and opinions of millions of strangers on a global level.
Re: Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
#10Each generation of parents fails on something.
This generation is failing at recognizing the dangers of social media.
Teenagers and even children are being radicalized on-line, sold dangerous diets, manipulated by state sponsored creators, lied by companies, taught anti-science, and the list goes on and on.
How is all this not heavily regulated? Even adults need protection from scammers, fake products, misleading ads, hidden product promotions that look like personal opinions...
We have gone back a 100 years when it comes to consumer rights, and children are the ones that are paying the highest price.