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Re:Stop telling people to delete their social media by RMPR on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:07AM (#50003101)
> Many other people specially kids had a lot worse experiences : such body image issues, addiction, sexual advances, self harm, cyber bullying.. etc. Meta had to pay fines because it knew there was issues.

I wrote this in the article

> So to the people telling everybody to delete all their social media: stop. You can give much better and non-destructive advice.

It's unclear to me how just deleting it would solve all the aforementioned issues.

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Re:Stop telling people to delete their social media by silverFork on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:50AM (#50007334)
Deleting surely helps because the stimuli disappears. You wrote it in there, why would you then contradict it?! What does it take to become clear?

All was not well. It wasn't just a page to communicate weddings and funerals. It is/was an addictive force. It is and was used to show off fake wealth, display fake success, being super thin, and all sort of worthless gloating and bullying. The survivors of it pretend that nothing happens, right!? Survival bias.

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