saw them “review” internal documents and studies from Facebook that unpacked the effect Instagram was having on young people and their mental health. The results were unsurprising.who felt bad about their bodies felt worse after logging on to Instagram; perhaps a reflection of targeted advertising and influencer culture.
It’s been heavily documented that young people’s mental health is being ruined by time spent on social media, and that establishing a healthy balance between on and offline time can help alleviate some of those issues.
Even more shockingly, another is purported to have said that 13% of UK teen users and 6% of US-based teen users “traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram”.called the social media experience for young people “broadly positive” at a congressional hearing when news tied to the potential launch of an Instagram exclusively for young people was doing the rounds.
So the question stands: if Facebook is aware of Instagram’s ability to catalyse mental health problems in teenagers, what’s being done about it. Thearticle soberly states: “The documents also show that Facebook has made minimal efforts to address these issues and plays them down in public”. Perhaps it’s a compromise of capital to address it. Over a third of Instagram’s users are under the age of 22, and they’re a growing market that brands are keen to target. Could tighter safeguards in terms of what young people, and particularly teenage girls, see on the app risk that?calls youth engagement a “vital” part of Instagram’s growth: “It doesn’t want to jeopardize their engagement with the platform”.
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