Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360M Users, per Company Surveys

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19 points·throwawaysea··6 comments

Here is the CHI research article they mention. Too bad they shut down the wellbeing research team! Anyone know why?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01911.pdf

Speculating here, but if there’s no internal research team publishing research about how Facebook is harmful to users, there won’t be any internal research to find during the discovery phase of a lawsuit to use against Facebook. If they don’t look into it, opposing counsel can’t say, “See! They knew! Look at these internal research reports”

Limiting legal liability is my guess

https://archive.md/qmOgl

Key quote: "Those problems, according to the documents, include a loss of productivity when people stop completing tasks in their lives to check Facebook frequently, a loss of sleep when they stay up late scrolling through the app and the degradation of in-person relationships when people replace time together with time online."

When will we figure out a "healthy" solution for social media?

Whether it's user-funded or advertiser-funded, there has to be a better way.

Solutions are not the issue. There is no dearth of creativity and problem solving capacity in the US. But the country hasnt produced a leader that everyone rallies around who can push the solutions through.

Without Leadership complex problems of this nature never get solved.

If I have an incredibly disruptive solution to this problem I wonder if I could get funding.

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