Stunning Young Teen Girl Private Leaked Insta S...
In the second episode in our investigative series, we turn to research that Facebook has kept private: its internal studies on the effects of Instagram, one of its core products, on teen mental health. WSJ's Georgia Wells details the company's findings, which show that Instagram can be harmful for young users, particularly teen girls. Plus, Instagram head Adam Mosseri explains why he thinks there's no "silver bullet" for this problem.
Stunning Young Teen Girl Private Leaked Insta S...
Kate Linebaugh: In recent years, Facebook employees have been studying this very issue, Instagram's effect on the mental health of teens. Internal Facebook documents show the results of their studies and those results suggest that Instagram can have negative effects on many of its millions of young users. One internal document says that for teen girls who'd recently experienced body image issues, Instagram made those feelings worse for one in three of them.
Georgia Wells: For years when asked about the topic Facebook executives have minimized or deflected or said the effects were quite small. Meanwhile, many other team girls I've spoken with said they had experiences that were really, really hard that they believe were exacerbated by Instagram. Reading these lines, 32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies Instagram made them feel worse. And another one, comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves. I know who that's talking about. That's talking about some of the teens I've been talking to over the past few months, and they've been saying this and articulating it clearly, yet Facebook and its top executives have never publicly said that their own in-house research backs up what these teen girls are saying.
In the second episode in our investigative series, we turn to research that Facebook has kept private: its internal studies on the effects of Instagram, one of its core products, on teen mental health. WSJ's Georgia Wells details the company's findings, which show that Instagram can be harmful for young users, particularly teen girls. Plus, Instagram head Adam Mosseri explains why he thinks there's no \"silver bullet\" for this problem. 041b061a72