Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by dgs_sgd on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:38PM (#28528077)

It's a true statement. Surely connecting via social apps has had positive mental health benefits on at least one person. That alone would make it true.

I think the problem is most people probably read the statement and don't realize just how weak the evidence required to make it true is.

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by zo1 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:50PM (#28528234)

I would interpret it as "connecting via social apps has a greater than absolute 0 probability of giving positive mental health benefits".

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by dgs_sgd on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:06PM (#28528462)

Then I think we're in agreement? "Connecting via social apps has a non-0 probability of giving (to whom? at least one person?) positive mental health benefits".

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by TedShiller on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:51PM (#28533687)

Exactly. If one person in the world benefits from using Instagram and the other 7 billion people get depressed, then the statement FB made is still true.

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by zo1 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:20AM (#28536968)

I am agreeing with you. Just mentioning how I frame/see it in my head.

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