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Re:The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet by 908B64B197 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:26PM (#35822937)
> Imagine reading a magazine full of ads and perfectly good-looking people almost every waking hour as a teen. You're going to end up very unhappy if none of what you're seeing looks like you.

In 2018 "obesity prevalence was [...] 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds." [1] according to the CDC. That's one out of 5 being obese, not just overweight. And it has more than tripled since the 70's [2]. I have to wonder if it's related. A lot of teenagers are bombarded with images of their peers' perfectly healthy bodies that, quite simply, won't match what they see in the mirror. The solution? Ban mirrors.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_15_16/obe...

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Re:The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet by hammyhavoc on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:47PM (#35823135)
A mirror shows you what's there.

Social media shows you whatever the algorithm is designed to show you at any given moment.

These two things are not the same.

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