Dark Side of Social Media

I was expecting such evidence-based insights to understand social media manipulation.

Key Notes from Link1, Link2

• There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook. And Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money
• Facebook has realised that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money
• The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world,” says former Facebook employee France Haugen.

Paper #1 - THE WELFARE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

• Adverse outcomes such as suicide and depression appear to have risen sharply over the same period that the use of smartphones and social media
• Social media may create ideological “echo chambers” among like-minded friend groups, thereby increasing political polarization
• Deactivating Facebook freed up 60 minutes per day for the average person in our Treatment group
• Facebook deactivation significantly reduced news knowledge and attention to politics. 

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Social Media can be addiction, It can make you feel lonely. We are not monitored for mental health. Talk more, Walk more. Quit Social Media!!!!