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

19 points by throwawaysea 5y ago

elevanation 5y ago
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.
- newaccount2021 5y ago
  why can't people be free to choose things that are bad for them? I can drink, smoke, eat a greasy burger...none of which are healthy but I'm free to enjoy and deal with the consequences... Society can't tell me I have to eat kale. Society likewise shouldn't be trying to steer me toward "blessed" media
- wsted 5y ago
  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.
austincheney 5y ago
If I have an incredibly disruptive solution to this problem I wonder if I could get funding.
Arnt 5y ago
https://archive.md/qmOgl 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."
dr_dshiv 5y ago
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 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01911.pdf
- quickthrowman 5y ago
  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

19 points by throwawaysea 5y ago

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.

newaccount2021 5y ago
why can't people be free to choose things that are bad for them? I can drink, smoke, eat a greasy burger...none of which are healthy but I'm free to enjoy and deal with the consequences... Society can't tell me I have to eat kale. Society likewise shouldn't be trying to steer me toward "blessed" media
wsted 5y ago
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.

austincheney 5y ago

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

Arnt 5y ago

https://archive.md/qmOgl 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."

dr_dshiv 5y ago

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

quickthrowman 5y ago
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