Social media addiction

a bombshell leak by an employee-turned-whistleblower from Facebook alleging knowledge of the potential for addiction in young people from using their platforms

Emerging social media addiction lawsuits claim that companies like Meta, the owner of popular social media sites Facebook and Instagram, purposefully implemented algorithms and other specific features designed to addict users to their platforms, despite their knowledge of the potential negative effects of addiction.

Many lawyers are even taking legal actions against the various platforms for addiction specifically in younger people

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AdaXI · 41-45, T

Yeah I hate Facebook for many reasons but all that ever happens in these situations is they'll stick a warning label on in future just to cover their a$$es. Like say online gambling companies started doing ''please gamble responsibly'' ''set yourself a sensible amount'', like no sh!t Sherlock.

It's like ''please drink responsibly'' labels on cans of beer it doesn't exactly stop anyone drinking 12 cans of it on a Friday night and getting blind drunk, but it does stop the companies making it from getting sued every five minutes, lolz.

And yes I know I missed the point about younger people generally being more susceptible to getting addicted to online media I totally agree but facebook come on that's what their grandmas use lolz! They're more likely to be addicted to online gaming, minecraft, shooting the sh!te outta each other on first person shooters or a whole host of other modern toss us oldies have never even heard of than they are stuffy FB, but yeah sure no matter what way you look at this one it's all very very addictive stuff.
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