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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by coldtea on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:37PM (#16253691)
That's not using Instagram in general anymore though, that's heavily censoring Instagram towards very non-typical streams.

It's as if responding to someone that said that one can never find any positive stream on Instagram, when people actually complained about what Instagram, at its majority, and as is used by most, is.

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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by askafriend on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:44PM (#16253744)
Everyone's Instagram feed is different and that's by design. Everyone curates differently for themselves. I don't think the point you're making is really that strong.

Media broadly is what you make of it. Turn on the TV and flip to CNN, I'm sure you'll be depressed within a couple minutes. At some basic level the burden of information curation rests on you - the human. You can't keep blaming CNN, Instagram, Facebook, Buzzfeed, etc etc ad infinitum.

At some point you have to step back and take the responsibility of information intake into your own hands.

That's not to say you don't have a valid point. You absolutely do have a valid point. But it's not as useful of a point as you're suggesting imo.

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