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Twitter is not algorithmically pushing supermodel photos to teenage girls. The target demographics are completely different from Instagram. You are correct how
by yunohn 5y ago
Twitter is not algorithmically pushing supermodel photos to teenage girls. The target demographics are completely different from Instagram.
You are correct however, that Twitter is also toxic; like all social media.
- jfk13 5y agoThe more basic issue seems to be that (many) people are toxic. If not always, to everyone, at least some of the time, towards some other people. The problem with social media, then, is that it allows -- indeed encourages, because "engagement" -- all that toxicity to spread so much more widely and rapidly than ever before.
- yunohn 5y agoWe could argue about "general/basic problems" all day. This post is about FB suppressing their own research, which showed that Instagram and its algorithm are toxic to teenage girls. > We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” > Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” > “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”