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> ... more teenage girls who said they struggled with that issue also said that Instagram made those difficult times better rather than worse

It's not good enough for more than 50% to feel better than worse. There are hundreds of millions of teenage girls on Instagram, even if Instagram made a tiny minority worse in difficult times than better that's an awful lot.

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Try that again with "cars". Clear positive to most people's lives, very very bad for some.

Your end point may or may not be right, but the logic here pretty clearly doesn't hold

Cars have advantages that a clear majority of drivers, wannabe drivers, and economists would tell you about - driving to work, for pleasure, shopping, giving freedom etc. Motoring deaths per US inhabitant per year is 0.01%

It's very hard to claim that Instagram has anything close to same number of advantage as motoring

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