Facebook Knows Instagram’s Toxic Effects on Teens – What Parents Need to Know About Digital Literacy

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https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-internal-report-shows-instagram-bad-for-teens-2021-9

https://www.cnet.com/news/tiktok-launches-mental-health-guide-after-report-about-instagrams-impact-on-teens/

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Facebook literally changes your relationship with society, with each other. It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains. It’s a social-validation feedback loop… exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. The inventors, creators … understood this consciously, and we did it anyway.

~ Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president