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There's a lot of influential, intelligent people who believe that showing like counts in apps like Instagram are bad for people's mental health. There's other t
by ahahahahah 5y ago
There's a lot of influential, intelligent people who believe that showing like counts in apps like Instagram are bad for people's mental health. There's other that think that it's actually good for mental health.
If you are a company with such an app, and you care about doing the right thing, how would you figure out whether or not showing those like counts affects users in that way? How would you figure out how to do things in ways that don't affect users negatively?
- ahahahahah 5y agoI'm not saying that running a test of the two and measuring how it affects users is necessarily the best way, but, honestly, it's not clearly wrong to me. If you are worried that your current thing is bad for users mental health and that this other approach is better, isn't it, in fact, the morally right thing to check that?