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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by crate_barre on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:08PM (#29859978)
Where’s that insta internal investigation on how it’s toxic to young girls (indicative of social media in general).
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by Manuel_D on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:23AM (#29860803)
Nowhere? I suspect few people actually read the report [1]. They asked teen girls (and boys) how Instagram made them feel. The most common response for girls was "no effect" 43%, followed by "somewhat better" 29%, then "somewhat worse" at 18%, then "much better" at 8%, and lastly "much worse" at 3%. The media conspicuously ignored that substantially more girls felt that Instagram made them feel better than worse.

1. https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...

Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by RealityWinner on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:17AM (#29861025)
I don't trust any research Facebook releases about the impact of their own platform and would take such with a grain of salt. There is no incentive for them to ever release negative results.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by Mirioron on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:50AM (#29862168)
You might not trust them, but the quote is taken out of context by the media and whenever it gets regurgitated on the internet. It's used as some kind of a "See, I knew I was correct in disliking them!" idea.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by astrange on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:47AM (#29861881)
That's easily spotted if they preregister their experiments.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by realprimoh on Sunday January 09, 2022 @06:21AM (#29862310)
They didn't release these results. It was leaked.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by belorn on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:46AM (#29864219)
That "much worse" at 3% was represented by a single reply.

When i read about the study my biggest surprise was how poorly it was. A poll with 40 people is so pointless that I don't understand why they didn't hire professionals to do a real survey.