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> we had magazines, TV, and the web, they all had advertising, and no population-level impact on child & teen mental health impact was observed as these were ad
by fainpul 10mo ago
> we had magazines, TV, and the web, they all had advertising, and no population-level impact on child & teen mental health impact was observed as these were adopted
That is not true. Distorted body perception, anorexia etc. due to omnipresent photoshopped models in magazines and poster ads where a thing decades ago.
Things escalated with social media, but there were issues long before that.
- insane_dreamer 10mo ago> Things escalated with social media, but there were issues long before that. The escalation, the ubiquitousness, is the problem. It's like the difference to your health between having a can of coke week and drinking a 2 L bottle of coke every day.