With the popularization of smartphones, modern people, regardless of age, always keep their hands on their phones. It is not difficult to see people with their heads down on the streets and cars looking at their phones.
For young people nowadays, operating social media may be more important than operating a real-life friendship circle, because when watching others lead a bright and beautiful life, they will inevitably have a sense of comparison and always hope that they can also become the envy of others. .
However, because of this kind of comparison mentality, young people who unknowingly indulge in social media and cannot extricate themselves, are more likely to develop dissatisfaction and anxiety about their own lives, so that they may even develop self-harm thoughts.
The Wall Street Journal received materials from the whistleblower and former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, and published a series of "Facebook Files" reports in mid-last month, exposing the Internet and social media giant Facebook’s suspected actions to harm users for profit. It reveals the harmful effects of social media on the mental and mental health of young people.
Haugen alleges that both the influence of Instagram on young women and the spread of extreme hate speech are the result of the design of this algorithm, and that Facebook only seeks to maximize participation and ignores the various problems generated by the algorithm.
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According to the "Wall Street Journal", it turns out that Facebook has studied whether Instagram has a negative psychological impact on users.
The results of the study show that Instagram has had a surprisingly negative impact on some users: one-third of young women’s body image problems have worsened, and young users believe that Instagram is the cause of increased anxiety and depression; one is young Instagram in the United Kingdom and the United States. User research also found that 40% of users who feel that they are “unattractive” said that their thoughts started with this app; even 13% of British users and 6% of American users said that their suicidal thoughts originated from Instagram.
What makes Haugen most annoyed is that after Facebook knew that its own product Instagram had such a bad influence on young people, it even planned to launch Instagram child abuse, "mutilating" children who are more vulnerable...
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