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Copy of User Persona - Presentation (16:9) by Evan Owan

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRYD66lNyV6LP6bgs29dJNcSAeuknNNVDsiB-I35EXY/edit#responses

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/19NJdaAz4lsnk33gre18-SweDVNFBLLslS6UahU2gd88/edit

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directed posts aren't the ones I want to see

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Finstagram-now-shows-least-interacted-with-accounts-2020-2&psig=AOvVaw0SYmmNkyRM60z2RS_9hHac&ust=1635439813502000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCLio1puG6_MCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ

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- hateful comments / comments that make users self conscious

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrightside.me%2Fwonder-curiosities%2F25-users-showed-how-different-instagram-is-from-reality-and-it-can-make-you-way-more-confident-791410%2F&psig=AOvVaw1j-llss07saCt8MmwW03yV&ust=1635439665547000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCLiy3eCF6_MCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

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- following too many people and not seeing everyones photos you want to see

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can't tell if all posts are altered (edited, photoshopped, facetuned)

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can't share a users post if they are private and your friend doesn't follow them (unfixable pain point)

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- sharing photos
- direct messaging content
- source of news/ consuming news (sports, markets)
- editing photos
- source of entertainment/ consuming entertainment
- shopping
- keeping up with athletes/ influencers/ teams/ companies
- commenting and sharing friends photos

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- sharing
- connectivity

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How often do you feel that Instagram targets material specifically at you?
-Not at all
-Sometimes
-Very Often

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Hull:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/09/14/facebook-knew-instagram-could-bad-teens-mental-health/8340578002/

14% of US boys in 2019 finding said that Instagram made them feel negatively about themselves

40% of teens in US and UK surveyed that said they felt unattractive traced it back to social media platforms

Facebook has said that it will consider steps such as removing the counts of likes feature on its platforms

Facebook downplayed the impact of the findings

Karina Newton head of public policy at Instagram is quoted: "limited set of findings that casts them in a negative light...demonstrates their commitment to understanding complex issues young people struggle with...social media isn't inherently bad or good for people...it is mixed"

Multiple Senators requested Zuckerberg to release Facebook's internal research on mental health; in response the company sent a six page letter that did not include their own research

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Top Facebook officials were aware that Instagram, the popular photo-based social media platform that it owns, can have a negative impact on mental health, body image and more for teenagers, particularly teenage girls, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Researchers who work for the social media giant found that some of the problems were specific to Instagram and not social media as a whole for teens, according to the Journal.

"Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse," researchers shared in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook's internal message board, reviewed by the Journal. "Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves."

In a study of teens in the U.S. and the U.K., Facebook found that over 40% of Instagram users who reported feeling "unattractive" traced that feeling back to the platform.

One slide from 2019 stated, "We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls." Another read, "Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression," according to the Journal.

One presentation said that, among teenagers who have experienced suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced suicidal impulses to Instagram.

Researchers also found Instagram negatively impacted some teenage boys, including a 2019 finding that 14% of boys in the U.S. said Instagram made them feel more negatively about themselves.

Although Facebook has taken some steps to potentially reduce negative impacts for teens, such as removing counts of "likes," the company has publicly downplayed Instagram's impacts.
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The research from Facebook does indicate that not all teens experience harmful effects from using the app. For many, connecting with peers and expressing themselves outweighed potential "negative social comparison."

Karina Newton, head of public policy at Instagram, said in a statement responding to the Journal's reporting, "While the story focuses on a limited set of findings and casts them in a negative light, we stand by this research.

"It demonstrates our commitment to understanding complex and difficult issues young people may struggle with, and informs all the work we do to help those experiencing these issues," her statement continued.

She also said that "social media isn't inherently good or bad for people" and that research on the effects of social media is "mixed."

Some of the research published by the Journal was cited in presentations given to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in August requested that Zuckerberg release Facebook's internal research on mental health impacts on young people. Facebook sent the senators a six-page letter that did not include its own studies, the Journal noted.

Blumenthal and Blackburn, who are chair and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security, on Tuesday announced that the subcommittee "would take additional steps to look into Facebook's knowledge of its platforms' negative impact on teenagers and young users," according to a news release.

Instagram declined to comment on the announcement from Blumenthal and Blackburn.

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Facebook officials knew Instagram can have negative mental health impacts for teens, report claims

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Top Facebook officials were aware that Instagram, the popular photo-based social media platform that it owns, can have a negative impact on mental health, body image and more for teenagers, particularly teenage girls, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Instagram should be regulated more by governing bodies
- yes
- indifferent
- np

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Do you feel that Instagram hides correlation between their platform and mental issues?
- Most definitely
- Probably
- 50-50
- Probably not
- Definitely not

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How transparent do you feel Instagram is in regards to their internal research on the mental effects of the platform?
- Not transparent
- Somewhat transparent
- Very transparent

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Hull:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/technology/facebook-instagram-for-kids.html

Facebook had plans to roll out Instagram platform for kids younger than 13

Children as young as 13 were already getting exposed to harmful content that included material such as eating disorders, extreme diets, body shaming etc. within 24 hours of creating an account

Attorneys General from 44 different states and jurisdictions signed a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to stop plans for creating this app

App design was halted, employees at FB went to Zuckerberg and demanded to see the research that the company did on Instagram

Teen suicide rate has jumped 20% in last four years, social media has contributed to it

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The social media giant said it still wanted to build a child-focused Instagram product but would postpone the plans in the face of criticism.

Friends exchanging Instagram QR codes. Facebook paused the development of Instagram Kids amid questions about the app's effect on young people's mental health. Credit... Jasmine Clarke for The New York Times

Facebook said on Monday that it had paused development of an Instagram Kids service that would be tailored for children 13 years old or younger, as the social network increasingly faces questions about the app's effect on young people's mental health.

The pullback preceded a congressional hearing this week about internal research conducted by Facebook, and reported in The Wall Street Journal, that showed the company knew of the harmful mental health effects that Instagram was having on teenage girls. The revelations have set off a public relations crisis for the Silicon Valley company and led to a fresh round of calls for new regulation.

Facebook said it still wanted to build an Instagram product intended for children that would have a more "age appropriate experience," but was postponing the plans in the face of criticism.

"This will give us time to work with parents, experts, policymakers and regulators, to listen to their concerns, and to demonstrate the value and importance of this project for younger teens online today," Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, wrote in a blog post.

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said Facebook's internal research was used to help guide product decisions. Credit... Ricky Rhodes for The New York Times

The decision to halt the app's development is a rare reversal for Facebook. In recent years, the social network has become perhaps the world's most heavily scrutinized corporation, grappling with privacy accusations, hate speech, misinformation and allegations of anticompetitive business practices. Regulators, lawmakers, journalists and civil society groups around the world have criticized the company for its effects on society.

With Instagram Kids, Facebook had argued that young people were using the photo-sharing app anyway, despite age-requirement rules, so it would be better to develop a version more suitable for them. Facebook said the "kids" app was intended for ages 10 to 12 and would require parental permission to join, forgo ads and carry more age-appropriate content and features. Parents would be able to control what accounts their child followed. YouTube, which Google owns, has released a children's version of its app.

But since BuzzFeed broke the news this year that Facebook was working on the app, the company has faced scrutiny. Policymakers, regulators, child safety groups and consumer rights groups have argued that it hooks children on the app at a younger age rather than protecting them from problems with the service, including child predatory grooming, bullying and body shaming.

Mr. Mosseri said on Monday that the "the project leaked way before we knew what it would be" and that the company had "few answers" for the public at the time.

Opposition to Facebook's plans gained momentum this month when The Journal published articles based on leaked internal documents that showed Facebook knew about many of the harms it was causing. Facebook's internal research showed that Instagram, in particular, had caused teen girls to feel worse about their bodies and led to increased rates of anxiety and depression, even while company executives publicly tried to minimize the app's downsides.

On Thursday, Facebook's global head of safety, Antigone Davis, is scheduled to testify at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing titled "Protecting Kids Online: Facebook, Instagram and Mental Health Harms."

Simply pausing Instagram Kids was insufficient, said lawmakers, including Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and the chairman of the subcommittee holding Thursday's hearing. In a statement, he and others said Facebook had "completely forfeited the benefit of the doubt when it comes to protecting young people online, and it must completely abandon this project."

The lawmakers added that stronger regulation was needed. "Time and time again, Facebook has demonstrated the failures of self-regulation, and we know that Congress must step in," they said.

A children's version of Instagram would not fix more systemic problems, said Al Mik, a spokesman for 5Rights Foundation, a London group focused on digital rights issues for children. The group published a report in July showing that children as young as 13 were targeted within 24 hours of creating an account with harmful content, including material related to eating disorders, extreme diets, sexualized imagery, body shaming, self-harm and suicide.

"Big Tobacco understood that the younger you got to someone, the easier you could get them addicted to become a lifelong user," Doug Peterson, Nebraska's attorney general, said in an interview. "I see some comparisons to social media platforms."

In May, attorneys general from 44 states and jurisdictions had signed a letter to Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to end plans for building an Instagram app for children.

American policymakers should pass tougher laws to restrict how tech platforms target children, said Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, a Boston-based group that was part of an international coalition of children's and consumer groups opposed to the new app. Last year, Britain adopted an Age Appropriate Design Code, which requires added privacy protections for digital services used by people under the age of 18.

Mr. Golin also called on Facebook to conduct a major public education campaign to tell parents to get their children under the age of 13 off Instagram.

Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, is scheduled to testify at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on Thursday. Credit... Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Instagram revelations have also set off discontent inside Facebook. On Thursday, during a companywide meeting led by Mr. Zuckerberg, employees demanded to see the Instagram research for themselves and asked what executives planned to do about the findings, according to one attendee, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

"Teen suicide rate has increased 20 percent in the last 4 years," read one of the top-voted employee questions to Mr. Zuckerberg. "It's proven that Instagram is toxic for teen girls. What is Facebook doing to address this?"

During the meeting, Mr. Zuckerberg passed the question to Mr. Mosseri, who said the research actually showed that Instagram mostly improved image issues for teens, according to the attendee. Those points were publicly reiterated in a company blog post on Sunday.

It's unclear what will happen to the team that led the development of the youth Instagram group. Facebook last year hired Pavni Diwanji, who previously oversaw the development of YouTube Kids, to build a similar experience for Instagram.

Liza Crenshaw, an Instagram spokeswoman, said the team focused on youth products would continue working on efforts related to teenagers, including "building meaningful tools to help parents and guardians support their teens." She added that pausing the Instagram youth app was "a collective decision" by the company's leadership and pointed to comments from Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president for global affairs, who said on Monday that the company planned to release the research "in the next few days."

On Monday, Mr. Mosseri defended the company. He said Facebook's internal research was used to help guide product decisions, including new features that allow people to pause their account or block certain words that could be used for bullying or harassment.

He pledged to introduce new parental control features for the existing Instagram app in the coming months while the company continues to consider a version for children. "Critics of Instagram Kids will see this as an acknowledgment that the project is a bad idea," Mr. Mosseri said. "That's not the case."

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Facebook Delays Instagram App for Users 13 and Younger

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The social media giant said it still wanted to build a child-focused Instagram product but would postpone the plans in the face of criticism. Facebook said on Monday that it had paused development of an Instagram Kids service that would be tailored for children 13 years old or younger, as the social network increasingly faces questions about the app's effect on young people's mental health.

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Hull:
https://time.com/4793331/instagram-social-media-mental-health/

Survey of 1,500 teens and young adults voted Instagram the worst social media platform for mental health, among Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Youtube and themselves

Tendencies included anxiety, depression, bullying, FOMO, and worse sleep quality

Teens who reported that they used social media sites for more than two hours a day were more likely to report psychological distress

In the survey 71% of the respondents said that they'd support changes, particularly the usage of pop up heavy usage warnings on their websites. Another way was to highlight photos that have been digitally manipulated, and also a way to identify and offer help to users who were suffering from mental health issues

Instagram rolled out feature last year allowing users to anonymously flag troublesome posts

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Why Instagram Is the Worst Social Media for Mental Health

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Instagram and Snapchat are the worst social media networks for mental health, according to a new survey of teenagers and young adults.

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George: https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2021/09/16/harmful-effects-instagram-shocking-not-surprise

Harmful effects were seen among a large portion of young female users

Facebook has continuously tried to downplay the negative impacts of the app (instagram) on young users' mental health

Even after knowing about the negative consequences, Facebook seemed to do little to fix, help, or change this

Instagram deviates itself from other medial platforms because it focuses on perfection and the feeling to create polished, highly curated versions of their lives

Explore page can push users into viewing harmful content

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The Wall Street Journal has published documents obtained this week from an internal study at Facebook that found Instagram had harmful effects among a significant portion of young female users.

For many, this is something they have known for a long time, though Facebook has publicly tried to downplay the negative impacts on young users' mental health. The WSJ investigation this week found that Facebook had been running in-depth studies on the impact of Instagram for more than three years, with researchers suggesting that Instagram makes "body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls".

"32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse."

These are pretty frightening findings and are only added to by the fact that "teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression", with researchers suggesting that this reaction was consistent across a range of age groups and was provided unprompted.

Facebook, it seems, has known for some time that Instagram can have a negative impact on the mental health and wellbeing of its young userbase - particularly for young women on the platform - yet seem to have done little to change this.

A perfect storm

What makes Instagram different from other social media platforms is the focus on perfection and the feeling from users that they need to create a highly polished and curated version of their lives. Researchers found that this focus on looking good and having an aspirational lifestyle, even if both are somewhat created, means that "social comparison is worse on Instagram".

Not only that, but the research suggested that Instagram's Explore page can push young users into viewing harmful content. "Aspects of Instagram exacerbate each other to create a perfect storm," the research found.

Facebook hasn't denied The WSJ article, with Instagram chief executive Adam Mosseri saying he is "proud" of the work being done and that he has been working hard for the team at Instagram to "embrace our responsibilities more broadly".

This, however, is in contrast to reports that Facebook is working on a version of Instagram specifically aimed at kids under the age of 13, despite wide outcry and concerns from advocacy groups.

It seems hard to fathom that Facebook could possibly continue with a venture aimed directly at kids, despite these reports of its own internal research showing the ill effects Instagram can have. But then nothing should surprise us anymore when it comes to Facebook.
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Harmful effects of Instagram shocking but not a surprise

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The Wall Street Journal has published documents obtained this week from an internal study at Facebook that found Instagram had harmful effects among a significant portion of young female users. For many, this is something they have known for a long time, though Facebook has publicly tried to downplay the negative impacts on young users' mental health.

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Do you find it important to look good and showcase an aspirational lifestyle on instagram?
- Yes, I want to look good
- Yes, I focus on displaying an aspiring lifestyle
- Yes, I do both
- No

OR just
- yes
- no

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Qual: Have you ever witnessed or been a victim of cyberbullying on Instagram?
- Yes, I'm a victim
- Yes, I've witnessed
- Yes (pref not to disclose)
- No

OR Do you compare yourself to other users on Instagram? (i.e. compare likes, comments, followers, body image, etc)
- Yes, but not often
- Yes, frequently
- Never

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Qual: What gender do you identify as?
- male
- female
- non binary
- prefer not to say
- Other: (type in)

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George: https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/09/20/negative-effects-of-instagram/

"Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse"

The highly visual and picture-based nature of social media platforms like Instagram put a social premium on appearance

The directed audience of Instagram plays a role as adolescents drawn to the app are still developing their sense of identity… social comparison can negatively impact this process

Social media platforms can increase the risk for eating disorders and mental health concerns (i.e. depressions, low self-esteem)

Because users are invited to produce pictures of themselves, the app orients users towards thinking that your appearance is a really important piece of you

I.E. if you are only seeing photos of other people and only posting pictures of yourself, then the app emphasizes how appearance is an important aspect of self-worth

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Since at least March 2020, Facebook officials have known that Instagram-the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, Inc.-has the power to make teenagers feel worse about their bodies, according to an internal report obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

"Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse," Facebook researchers wrote in the presentation about the negative effects of Instagram, according to the Journal.

The effect may have as much to do with the mechanics of the app itself as with its audience, says Rachel Rodgers, associate professor of applied psychology at Northeastern. The highly visual nature of social media platforms favored by younger people-TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram-put a social premium on appearance, says Rodgers, who studies sociocultural influences on body image and eating concerns. At the same time, the adolescents drawn to them are still developing their sense of identity.

"It's a bit like animals whose shells are still growing to protect them; it's a really vulnerable time," she says.

But, Rodgers says, there is a way to engage with these social platforms in a more balanced, healthier way. It just takes a lot of work.

What did you make of the findings about the negative effects of Instagram obtained by The Wall Street Journal?

I can't comment on what Facebook may have collected in terms of their own data or how they went about that, but I think substantively around the question of whether or not these and other platforms are related to negative mental health impacts-particularly among young people-we know from a lot of independent research that that has been shown to be the case.

Particularly in the areas I'm most familiar with, we know there are effects on young people's feelings about their appearance, their body satisfaction, and social media platforms can increase risk for eating disorders and other mental health concerns such as depression and low self-esteem. We know that cyberbullying occurs among young people, we know that for some young people, the consequences of that can be extremely damaging. There's no doubt that there's substantial research showing that these platforms can have a negative effect on young people.

What is it about using these types of social media apps that has such an effect on mental health?

There's a conjunction between what it is about the application and what it is about the audience.

In my opinion, which is supported by data, there are a lot of things that make the apps deleterious: There's the fact that the more popular applications with young folks are highly visual. You're only consuming pictures and you're also invited to only produce pictures of yourself. Both of those things orient you towards thinking that your appearance is a really important piece of you-if you're only seeing photos of other people and only posting photos of yourself, it emphasizes that appearance is a really important part of self-worth, which we know is a risky way of considering appearance because intrinsically appearance is going to change over time.

These apps are also highly interactive-one of the points of posting is to get feedback. Obviously, you always hope that feedback is going to be positive, but every young person knows that that's not always the case, either because they themselves have gotten negative feedback or because they've witnessed someone receiving negative feedback. In a conceptualization where you are only worth what your picture is, that's a direct reflection of your worth as a person. So, that becomes very impactful.

And then there's the fact that there's a real blurring between corporate interests and individual interests.

Then, you bring those characteristics together with younger people who are developing their identity. As an older adult, there are a number of things in your life that you can achieve that can put appearance in the background or balance out a negative experience, but when you're 14, you don't have that. It's a bit like animals whose shells are still growing to protect them; it's a really vulnerable time.

How is the experience of viewing images on Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok different from consuming them in magazines?

Teens are still developing an understanding of marketing intent and the amount of affection and curation that goes into images in any kind of post, really. The level of literacy around the fact that these images are highly curated and often digitally altered is really variable. You hear people say, "Well this is a video on TikTok, so it must be real because you can't alter videos." And of course, you can filter videos just like you can filter photos. There's a disconnect around the likelihood that this was edited in some way and how "real" is it?

But there's also some difficulty in understanding that even if this post isn't explicitly selling me a product, it was placed here with a particular self-promoting intent. Nobody posts to social media in the hopes that people think they're unattractive, unpopular, someone you wouldn't want to hang out with.

There's also the added wrinkle of algorithms that can fill your feed with ads based on what they think you're interested in-how does that play a role?

If we're thinking about adolescence and the importance of norms: If you think that what you're seeing is the same as what everybody else is seeing, that peer pressure is going to make a much stronger impact on you than, say, somebody who's 25 years old.

Is there a way to engage with these apps as a younger person that will be healthier or more balanced?

I think there is, and I think there are intrinsic limitations to these apps.

Some of the difficulties that are software-related are how hard it is to tell the algorithms you don't like something. You can try to play them by overexposing them to the things you do want to see, and that will kind of automatically reduce the things you don't. But Facebook and Instagram don't have dislike functions, it's really hard to say "I don't like this, I don't want to see it."

The other thing is that they're highly visual-it's really hard to interact on Snapchat or Instagram that doesn't somehow talk about appearance because text just isn't a big part of it.

I do think that young people can interact with these in better ways and some of them really do, but when they describe that, you see how effortful it is and how deliberate it has to be and the way that it, in some ways, sort of sets them apart. You can spend a lot of time getting the algorithms to learn the type of things you're interested in and then they will show you prosocial content [content that encourages prosocial behavior, or behavior through which people benefit others] or the brands that are high on corporate responsibility or sustainability or whatever your values may be.

You can also be very deliberate about who you follow, what you follow, to try to curate your online space. You can be careful about how much time you spend on it. You can choose not to participate in the pressure to make yourself highly visible, but again this is onerous as a young person because it means asking people not to tag you, and explaining that you don't have one when people ask for your handle.

I do think it's somewhat telling that the best way to do this healthfully is just not to do it.

Do these companies have a responsibility to the young people who are using their platforms to make it easier to use them in a healthy way?

I would personally say that we all as humans have a responsibility to make the world a safe, equitable, prosocial place. I would agree that companies do, and I think that's true of all companies: It's true for clothing companies and beauty companies, all companies that profit from making people feel that their appearance is inadequate. I think it's also true of us and other users. It's a social responsibility, it's something that the people who are deriving the most benefit from should care the most about.
For media inquiries, please contact Shannon Nargi at s.nargi@northeastern.edu or 617-373-5718.

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Why does Instagram have a negative effect on teenagers' mental health?

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Since at least March 2020, Facebook officials have known that Instagram-the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, Inc.-has the power to make teenagers feel worse about their bodies, according to an internal report obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

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When did you first start using Instagram?
- under 7 years old
- 7-10 years old
- 11 - 14 years old
- 15 - 18 years old
- 18+

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Qual: What do you look at most on Instagram?
- Stories
- Following feed
- Explore Page

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5. App heightens the "fear of missing out" and leads teens to question their friendships

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How does going through your feed make you feel about your body image?

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4. Explore page creates a cycle of users seeing content that instills anxiety

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Quant: How often do you check instagram?
- less than once per day
- once a day
- 2 to 4 times a day
- 5 - 9 times a day
- 10 or more times

OR How much time do you spend on instagram each week?
- 30 mins or less
- 30 mins to 1 hour
- 1 - 2 hours
- more than 2 hours

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3. Concerns about transparity of internal research into problematic affects

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2. app usage causes already insecure/ vulnerable individuals to feel even more insecure

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1. Posts are typically body and background centered which causes body image insecurity