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

Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by Animats on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:48PM (#28529128)

Ditto for online pornography.

Nah. That's been studied heavily. Here's an overview from the National Institutes of Health.[1] Wikipedia has an overview.[2] The overall conclusion is that most of the research is of terrible quality and there's no big measurable effect.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352245/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by atonalfreerider on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:17PM (#28530482)

Here is strong evidence to the contrary from the NIH:

>The proposed DSM-5, slated to publish in May of 2014, contains in this new addition the diagnosis of Hypersexual Disorder, which includes problematic, compulsive pornography use. Bostwick and Bucci, in their report out of the Mayo Clinic on treating Internet pornography addiction with naltrexone, wrote “…cellular adaptations in the (pornography) addict’s PFC result in increased salience of drug-associated stimuli, decreased salience of non-drug stimuli, and decreased interest in pursuing goal-directed activities central to survival.”

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050060/

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by Animats on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:10PM (#28534392)

That's from one case, and it's worth reading.[1]

[1] https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)...

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Re:Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company... by passivate on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:29PM (#28533480)

You first claim that most of the research is terrible, then also claim that research shows 'no big measurable effect'. Can you clarify what you mean?

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