If you don’t like these apps and are scared for your kids just block them then. Done.

Anyone else know Davis from her DD’s school days and think she looks just a little different?

Good for Frances Haugen. Interesting she doesn't think the company's problems can be solved by breaking it up though -- as an observer who used to use Instagram, it really felt like the app got much, much worse after being acquired by Facebook and especially once Facebook more fully integrated it with the rest of the company. The algorithms that power the "Explore" tab and suggest new accounts to users really seem to push users toward posts and accounts that encourage or will appeal to people suffering from mental illness.

After I had a baby, I remember just being pummeled suggested posts about losing weight, including lots of suggested accounts for extreme dieting. It was interesting because I never once ran a search for weight loss or baby weight or anything. But the app knew I was a new mom and the algorithm decided that was what I wanted.

Meanwhile, I had PPD and I went out of my way to find accounts that tased about PPD or new motherhood. Most of my instagram activity at that time was focused on those issues. And yes, still, my Explore tab was filled with posts about losing weight, looking good post-baby, tons of Instagram influencers posed in matching outfits with their kids, etc. Again, nothing I'd ever expressed any interest in, and some of it almost certainly directly triggering for my PPD. But the algorithm wasn't interested in my actual interests. It was pushing an agenda, presumably based on what it has found tends to drive engagement (i.e. obsessive scrolling, likes, comments, etc.). Meanwhile, checking the app once or twice a day to look at positive mental health posts and engage in conversations with a small group of women about our mental health after having babies was not something Instagram/Facebook was interested in encouraging, even though it was actually a really helpful part of my recovery.

That company is trash.

The Times with the write up. Facebook, Zuckerberg and 'lean in' hack Sheryl Sandberg sought "profits over safety."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/technology/whistle-blower-facebook-frances-haugen.html

White female Facebook employee was the whistleblower. This isn't going away. This is an evil and demonic company, period.

Has anyone else removed/blocked IG from their teen girl's phone? I have a very pissed off teenager on my hands right now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Social media is simply the symptom not the disease. So much easier to blame someone else than look at your part in perpetuating the damage our broader culture does to girls a d then working to change it. We have normalized women cutting up their bodies because “it makes them feel good” we have normalized injecting a paralytic toxin into our faces, we have normalized hating our bodies and seeing other women as threats and rivals. That is what is damaging our girls Instagram just accelerates what is already there. Just as Trump didn’t make people racist, he just made some people think it was ok. Instagram didn’t create this, it has simply amplified it.

Bullshit. There is nothing more powerful in a kid's life than the cellphone and the content pumped into their heads from that device. Nothing. Ever. All time in human history. We're talking 10+ hours per day, every day of non-stop propaganda, filth, hedonism, drug use, and self-harm on and on and on. Parents really have no idea.

The cell phone isn't the problem. Our kids have cell phones so they can track us/we track them for activities. They aren't on social media as we don't encourage it but they do other things and we monitor it. You need to monitor, teach moderation and supervise. It shouldn't be all or nothing.

Haha. They are on it and watching their friends phones all day too.

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Is the senator's office sure they didn't set up a finsta? Because as that creep from facebook said, a finsta is just kids joshing around.

Listen to this demonic creep from Facebook, pretending to not know what finsta means or the motive for kids to use it -- read to keep the profile hidden and illicit photos from their parents. Disturbing.

Anonymous wrote:Same as allowing young sons become addicted to video games, I do not understand why nearly every American parent lets this app harm and manipulate their tween daughters.

Parents also know that Instagram is harmful to the youth and to adults. As parent, you decide what limitations to put to it. duh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference between the media we consumed and social media is stark. Not only are teens consuming it, they are it. They feel the need to curate their life for social media. There is no break. You are judged for things you do currently AND for your past deeds. I think that’s the hardest part. There is no room for F ups like we had. That’s a lot of pressure.

- and the research backs this up.

The down-playing and dismissiveness on this thread is appalling.

Do you think the Wall Street journal is “fake news?” Do you think Congress launches investigations over nothing?


Or,

- is the issue that you have willingly let your daughter unlimited use of Instagram, but only now realize that might have been a terrible mistake?

This forum picks up Google key word hits. These are trillion dollar tech corps with payrolls full of 'control the record' hacks – especially after the WSJ story blew this up. Not to mention DMV is full of tech lobbyists. Without question the people spinning and dismissing are not genuine parents, they essentially paid bots.

Yes Facebook is ALL over a 3 page thread on DCUM. The willingness to be all over conspiracy theories is truly astounding!

- said the automated bot.

Or troll, possibly a paid troll working for big social media / big data (they certainly have the money to pay people who spend all day trying to cancel negative publicity).

I am rubber and you are glue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference between the media we consumed and social media is stark. Not only are teens consuming it, they are it. They feel the need to curate their life for social media. There is no break. You are judged for things you do currently AND for your past deeds. I think that’s the hardest part. There is no room for F ups like we had. That’s a lot of pressure.

- and the research backs this up.

The down-playing and dismissiveness on this thread is appalling.

Do you think the Wall Street journal is “fake news?” Do you think Congress launches investigations over nothing?


Or,

- is the issue that you have willingly let your daughter unlimited use of Instagram, but only now realize that might have been a terrible mistake?

This forum picks up Google key word hits. These are trillion dollar tech corps with payrolls full of 'control the record' hacks – especially after the WSJ story blew this up. Not to mention DMV is full of tech lobbyists. Without question the people spinning and dismissing are not genuine parents, they essentially paid bots.

Yes Facebook is ALL over a 3 page thread on DCUM. The willingness to be all over conspiracy theories is truly astounding!

- said the automated bot.

Or troll, possibly a paid troll working for big social media / big data (they certainly have the money to pay people who spend all day trying to cancel negative publicity).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference between the media we consumed and social media is stark. Not only are teens consuming it, they are it. They feel the need to curate their life for social media. There is no break. You are judged for things you do currently AND for your past deeds. I think that’s the hardest part. There is no room for F ups like we had. That’s a lot of pressure.

- and the research backs this up.

The down-playing and dismissiveness on this thread is appalling.

Do you think the Wall Street journal is “fake news?” Do you think Congress launches investigations over nothing?


Or,

- is the issue that you have willingly let your daughter unlimited use of Instagram, but only now realize that might have been a terrible mistake?

This forum picks up Google key word hits. These are trillion dollar tech corps with payrolls full of 'control the record' hacks – especially after the WSJ story blew this up. Not to mention DMV is full of tech lobbyists. Without question the people spinning and dismissing are not genuine parents, they essentially paid bots.

Yes Facebook is ALL over a 3 page thread on DCUM. The willingness to be all over conspiracy theories is truly astounding!

- said the automated bot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The difference between the media we consumed and social media is stark. Not only are teens consuming it, they are it. They feel the need to curate their life for social media. There is no break. You are judged for things you do currently AND for your past deeds. I think that’s the hardest part. There is no room for F ups like we had. That’s a lot of pressure.

- and the research backs this up.

The down-playing and dismissiveness on this thread is appalling.

Do you think the Wall Street journal is “fake news?” Do you think Congress launches investigations over nothing?


Or,

- is the issue that you have willingly let your daughter unlimited use of Instagram, but only now realize that might have been a terrible mistake?

This forum picks up Google key word hits. These are trillion dollar tech corps with payrolls full of 'control the record' hacks – especially after the WSJ story blew this up. Not to mention DMV is full of tech lobbyists. Without question the people spinning and dismissing are not genuine parents, they essentially paid bots.

Yes Facebook is ALL over a 3 page thread on DCUM. The willingness to be all over conspiracy theories is truly astounding!