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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by jfk13 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:50AM (#28525713)
The more basic issue seems to be that (many) people are toxic. If not always, to everyone, at least some of the time, towards some other people.

The problem with social media, then, is that it allows -- indeed encourages, because "engagement" -- all that toxicity to spread so much more widely and rapidly than ever before.

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by yunohn on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:58AM (#28525861)
We could argue about "general/basic problems" all day.

This post is about FB suppressing their own research, which showed that Instagram and its algorithm are toxic to teenage girls.

> We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,”

> Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,”

> “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”

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