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A comment on Facebook’s documents about Instagram and teens, published. Parent comment

Re:Facebook’s documents about Instagram and teens, published by chiefalchemist on Friday October 01, 2021 @08:25PM (#28724846)
Um. Actually, cyber bullying (probably) correlates with suicide. That is, the suicide victim likely has other contributing causes. Maybe that depression? Maybe it's being abused as a child. Etc.

I am by no means belittling suicide (note: a close family member used that exit), nor am I belittling bullying. It's evit. But it's rare such things can be traced to a single trigger. Life is complicated. Sometimes we're too willing to oversimplify.

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Re:Facebook’s documents about Instagram and teens, published by GhettoComputers on Saturday October 02, 2021 @01:41AM (#28726249)
Yes there is enough media attention it may be overly skewed but it’s like coronavirus statistics, did they die of corona, oxygen deprivation, or inflammation? They said in the study that once that was taken out the stats are way less skewed to negative.
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