I love how everyone here is blaming something different: parents, Meta, advertisement, political divisiveness, urban planning, society, personal responsibility. Soon there will be more reasons, like violence and money. And they're right, sure. All of those are partially responsible.

But I feel we tend to give a pass to the people who are actually producing the content that is damaging a generation and making bank, as if they have no agency or responsibility.

Instagram would probably be great overnight if those people suddenly all disappeared.

Remind me who has majority voting power at Meta

I wonder if the guy cares about anything in the world other than his rich list position and VR. Certainly not the 'dumb f**' users.

I guess one has to be somewhat ill to use such platforms in the first place.

It's similar to swengs - before remote work one could be a king of their own place for a lot of money, now swengs need to compete for much cheaper with people from all around the world who might cheat in unimaginable ways to land a job. Like all those plastic-perfect pseudocelebrity influencers on Instagram sucking all ad money, making droves of people super depresses when they look in a mirror. It's also much easier to get in touch with them directly, damaging opportunities of worse-looking real people to socialize.

They gave people beauty filters too.

"Beauty filters", in the form of cosmetics, have been widely used by both men and women at least since the days of ancient Egypt, 5000 years ago. Likely before... that's just the earliest record we have.

It’s not the same thing and you know this.

Plastic surgery is similar, wearing some make up is one thing, changing the structure of your face is something else.

> It’s not the same thing and you know this.

Nonsense. I "know" nothing of the kind.

> Plastic surgery is similar, wearing some make up is one thing, changing the structure of your face is something else.

On the contrary. Plastic surgery is a permanent alteration. Wearing makeup and using "beauty filters" are both temporary.

Maybe they should? What is the benefit of having them continue and does it outweigh the cost?