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Great, Meta next?
by bix6 2y ago
Great, Meta next?
- qoez 2y agoWon't someone think of the profits??
- ok123456 2y ago[flagged]
- dmamills 2y agoOr it could be that it doesn't fit into the age demographics. Not many studies on child behaviour are conducted at the Bingo Hall.
- ok123456 2y agoMeta owns Instagram, which is still very popular with people who have most of their original teeth.
- lolinder 2y agoThis is an ignorant assumption about the author's motives that doesn't withstand even the least bit of scrutiny. Meta came first under Haidt's crosshairs and has been targeted since this article was released. Snapchat was targeted with a partner piece to this one yesterday: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat Haidt isn't anti-China, he's anti-all-social-media.
- ok123456 2y ago[flagged]
- lolinder 2y agoDid you even read my comment?
- ok123456 2y agoDid you read mine?
- lolinder 2y agoThere wasn't much to them, but yes. The second comment asked a question which I'd already answered, which is why I'm wondering if you read it and followed the link to the article targeting Snapchat. I can respond again if your attention span has been shot by too much TikTok: > Then why isn't the article "Social Media Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale?" USAID checks? Because he already wrote many, many articles to that effect and wanted to write one on TikTok specifically. Then he followed it up with one on Snapchat specifically. Social media harming children is his whole thing. He's written a lot of content on it. Apologies if this reply is too long for you.
- sgtgig 2y agoMeta has towering mountains of criticism and legal issues against them. For the most part it just doesn't involve kids, as kids don't really use their platform.
- sanderjd 2y agoIf you have read anything Haidt has written, you'll probably note that this implied criticism of him being only anti TikTok is quite far off the mark.
- Xelbair 2y agoHopefully all social media. and all of them should be run by non-profit organizations unconnected to any charity nor politically motivated organization nor state.
- rvz 2y agoAgree with this. All of them. That includes the new ones such as Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon. No exceptions.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoAh, but would you also include NH, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, GitHub, Quora... too ? (Speaking of, this was important, but I still spent too much time on it on HN... EDIT : heh, as immediately proved by the "posting too fast" rate limiter...) P.S.: Platforms are also a very related but not identical evil.
- lolinder 2y agoHe's already been on Meta for years now: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aafterbabel.com+instagram https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aafterbabel.com+instag... https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aafterbabel.com+Facebook https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aafterbabel.com+Facebo...
- zehaeva 2y agoMeta is currently on trial for antitrust. As was pointed out elsewhere in this post Jon Haidt has been railing about social media for a while now, and has written several books on the subject. https://jonathanhaidt.com/social-media/ https://jonathanhaidt.com/social-media/