Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by op03 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:00AM (#25929845)

This is not about upsides and downsides. The truth is execs in Twitter, Facebook and Youtube had no clue what upsides and downside would be produced by the system they created.

The happily took credit for the upsides and for the longest time, like almost a decade, laughed out of the room anyone talking about the downsides.

Such people are still in charge of these fucking companies.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by deeeeplearning on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:12AM (#25929997)

There's a reason these people will come out and say they don't let their kids use the apps they work on...

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by Nasrudith on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:41PM (#25932893)

That luddite standard of "expected to know all upsides and downsides of something novel" bugs the royal crap out of me. It not only demands omniscience but implicitly assumes perfection of the status quo by not holding it to the same standards. To call forums for speech reckless is a very novel standard that back in the 90s and 00s would get you mocked as sounding like a third world dictator.

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