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Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful (axios.com)
In a new installment of its "Hard Questions" series, Facebook acknowledged on Friday that social media can have negative effects on people, depending on how they use it. From a report: This might be the first public acknowledgment from the company that its product -- and category in general -- can have detrimental effects on people. Facebook is also addressing the topic shortly after two former executives publicly criticized the company for what they described as exploiting human psychology. Passive use of social media -- reading information without interacting with others -- makes people feel worse. Clicking on more links or "liking" more posts than the average user also leads to worse mental health, according to one study.
On slashdot people barely post about their lives
. . . could be because Slashdot folks don't have any lives to post about.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Absolutely. Haven't you been to any of the local Slashdot meetups? They're a blast. We get together and have pitchers of diet coke and talk about how women really aren't suited for the very difficult tech jobs that we do. They tend to be sausage fests for the most part, but a few Slashdot celebs who I won't mention (mi, SuperKendall) are kind of femme and will let us feel them up at the end of the evening.
What is the main difference from social media, where people post messages and opinions? I mean, Slashdot doesn't include the ability to post images or videos, but considering they don't even support unicode, I'm not sure that's a surprise.
Of course it is. You saw many of the same phenomena played out on USENET that you're seeing today on twitter or facebook.
You are welcome on my lawn.