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smoking:respiratory system :: social media:mental health

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There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it.

The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.

Is your statement correct?

People can smoke for decades without any major consequence.

What is the long term effect of Facebook on individuals and society?

what is healthy about sharing your private data with a 3rd party you cannot trust with anything? If anything thats irresponsible.

You can't use Facebook without being damaged by Facebook.

It's like lead poisoning. There's no safe level. If you're on Facebook you're on Facebook, and that alone is a problem for a variety of reasons, privacy being just one.

This just isn't true.

Plenty of people (millions, maybe billions) use Facebook without being damaged by it.

One example, of many: Cambridge Analytica scraped information on these people. Are you sure they weren't damaged by that?

Millions of people smoke and while they don't drop dead immediately, they are damaged by it. Sometimes damage takes a long time to accumulate.

All due respect, smoke causes cancer, images don't cause mental health problems.

If cigarettes weren't addictive they'd still be REALLY bad for you.

The problem with Facebook (or current Social Media) is that it IS addictive, and therefore bad, if it wasn't addictive it wouldn't necessarily be bad for you.

I disagree. I think there are a large number of mental health problems that are directly attributable to images you see and words you read -most notably depression, but I think anorexia is the case study here. I don't think that the people who've contracted it through social media weren't already at risk, but the availability of models and pro-ana groups that encourage and enable such behavior has profound effect.

Talk to child exploitation workers who have nervous breakdowns over the images they see.

Images do cause mental health issues.

That’s completely true, I wasn’t clear in my first post, I meant images alone do not necessarily cause harm, whereas a cigarette does necessarily cause harm.

You’re completely right that there are images which can cause harm

> images don't cause mental health problems

This is categorically false.

The health problems caused by smoking can be easily visualized as a pair of black lungs. Social media is harmful in a more invisible way.

Here is just one article. Have a google, there are plenty.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/19/popular-soci...

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