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I don’t really follow how an app like this leads to dysfunctional mindsets. Your slippery slope argument feels hysterical; this is just an app, and it’s a digit

• NegatioN 9y ago
  But it's not supplying teens with a better alternative though. It's reinforcing something healthy adults know (intellectualy) isn't ha healthy way to view yourself and the world. Teens don't necessarily yet have that frame of reference. One can only hope that everyone receives the support from family or friends to see their self-worth tied to something else than this, no?
• quadrangle 9y ago
  I wasn't only making a slippery-slope argument, it was just one aspect of this. And it's based on my understanding that there really is a slippery slope in THIS case (although I didn't write a full essay explaining the evidence). > a digital version of what teens already do That would be nothing more than open-ended chat such as teens communicating via text-messages or online forums. An analog version of TBH would be a structured system in which employees of for-profit companies go to high schools and facilitate teen gossip, inject themselves into a circle of girls hanging out in the hall and prompt them with these questions etc. I would like to think you can consider for yourself the ramifications here. Teens do lots of stuff, some of which is kinda shitty even when it seems positive on the surface, and TBH is a for-profit app trying to monetize and control it while spouting some B.S. about how they're doing something positive somehow.