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I find instagram to be, by far, the most damaging to my mental health of all the social networks. The explore feed must be optimized to relentlessly show "all t
by dawhizkid 9y ago
I find instagram to be, by far, the most damaging to my mental health of all the social networks. The explore feed must be optimized to relentlessly show "all the people I wish I could be but will never be."
- exodust 9y agoAre you saying that if you were unaware those people existed, your mental health would benefit? I don't understand. "Ignorance is bliss" surely can't be an antidote to depression.
- dawhizkid 9y agoThe point is that it's so easy to fall into the trap of comparing yourself to the artificial lives of professional "influencers" on Instagram who are selling you a lifestyle for their own gain. It isn't so much "ignorance is bliss" so much as realizing the life they sell isn't really real. Even among "non-influencers" everyone is optimizing posts to show the happiest parts of their lives, which is a tiny slice of our reality. When you're feeling depressed or anxious, being bombarded with a feed of artificially happy people only makes you more depressed or anxious.
- icodemuch 9y agoInstagram was never my favorite, but I could at least get behind the old news feed sorting by "most recent". I recently deleted the app bc of the new sorting algorithm, which I'm not a fan of. At least Facebook gives the option to switch the news feed sorting back to "most recent".