Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health

Re:Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's ... by Asdfbla on Monday April 09, 2018 @05:26PM (#16797152)

I find it pretty hard to curate even interesting lists of researchers on Twitter without running into too much fluff or political tweets. I don't blame them for using the medium as it might be intended and of course they are free to share their personal opinions, but in my experience even just a handful of people who tweet a bit too often can pollute your stream enough to make it annoying to follow along.

Maybe Twitter should just let you filter posts based on content. (Maybe it's already possible, I'm not a big Twitter user.)

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Re:Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's ... by psyc on Monday April 09, 2018 @06:11PM (#16797435)

Same here. I only follow graphics programmers and game developers. The graphics people are ok, but a few of them tweet a lot of politics in addition to content I wouldn’t want to miss. And game development is thoroughly saturated in The Culture War, so there’s no practical way to avoid that except to ignore it.

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Re:Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's ... by woolvalley on Monday April 09, 2018 @05:46PM (#16797279)

There is word filter feature, but the UX is a bit clunky and you cant subscribe / paste a big list of words you would like to filter.

A future feature I would like to see in social networks is automatically generating tags for posts and letting people filter out the posts based on that.

With that, I can just choose an automatically generated US politics filter for example and not have to maintain a mute list.

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