As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by rustamm on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:15PM (#29071553)

You're so right about this. I'm surprised so many HN users just blindly accept any critical claim about facebook.

The article on Ars is pure click bait. Nowhere in the article 6yo kids are mentioned. The article doesn't even contain any news material, it just regurgitates things published a week ago.

Reliance on self reported studies, that doesn't even paint Facebook bad by itself. If you want to prove that Facebook is bad for mental health, show me at least an observational study that so that I can compare the baseline prevalence of mental health disorders with the mental health of FB users. I doubt it would be different for any other social network user. The key word here is comparison. Raw numbers rarely mean anything by themselves.

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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by cbtacy on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:37PM (#29073482)

From the article... "Facebook was considering new products targeted at children as young as six years old, according to a new document handed over to Congress by whistleblower Frances Haugen."

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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by rustamm on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:23PM (#29075683)

You are right, not sure how I missed that

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