Facebook is no stranger to scandals, including those who land in court or baked by Congress, but there are some famous ones who really arouse people’s anger. While interference in the election of the US past still haunts it to this day, Facebook’s latest disaster does not even involve its main social network but one of its greatest properties. Then again, the giant social technology has been blamed for how things run on Instagram, and now promise to take stronger steps to protect their healthy health users.
Facebook makes headlenders again, and not in a good way, in recent weeks when leaking and whistleblower frances Haugen reveals how Instagram, in particular, has a very negative impact on mental health of teenage users. There is not only a study pointing to this phenomenon, but Facebook is also thought to realize it and choose to ignore warning signs for network traffic and, in the end, income. Not surprisingly, the world’s largest name on social media once again found itself under intense supervision and criticism.
Responding to heat hikes around the teen demographics, Instagram chooses to place his plans for detained Instagram children, maybe indefinitely. However, Facebook and Instagram, were pressured to take greater steps to protect young users, even when trying to explain the mental health studies leaked. On the “Union Condition” CNN, Facebook VP of Global Clegg revealed two steps such as Instagram will immediately apply it in that direction.
For example, try to ask users to distract them from what can be considered dangerous content. If teenage users are determined to see the same type of content over and over again, they will be urged to see some other content. However, it will need Facebook to open its algorithm to be checked so that the regulator can check how the network strengthens content, including potentially dangerous.
Maybe the most drastic and maybe the most useless will be a reminder of “rest”. This will be similar to what is tried to do by several digital welfare services or mindfulness, encourage users to rest from their phone or lock them from the phone for a short time. While adults may have self-control to actually follow this reminder, adolescents can ultimately find a way to overcome these restrictions if Instagram does not simply implement it.