False analogies won't make your case.

There are plenty of happy, successful people who didn't die because they used a Meta product.

In fact I'd even argue that all things equal, a Meta user is happier than a paranoid-meta-hater who worries every minute that someone is going to serve them an Ad that fits them

"oh, the horror!!!. How am I ever going to recover from the trauma and financial ruin of seeing a targeted ad."

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lrvick 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> There are plenty of happy, successful people who didn't die because they used a Meta product.

And plenty of teens that never became happy and successful people because they used a Meta product.

These companies are predatory, and have nothing to offer us we cannot easily setup at home these days with privacy and sovereignty.

	▲	ai-x 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[citation needed] Note: Unless you spin an alternative universe there is no way you can prove causality of social media usage => happiness/depression.

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mrtesthah 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>successful people who didn't die

Did you just move the goalposts to “it didn’t kill me”?

We’re talking about society-wide effects here, including harm to children for which Facebook is paying 17 billion dollars.

https://oag.dc.gov/release/attorney-general-schwalb-announce...

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ai-x 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For a supposedly science-based cohort we aren't using any science aren't we?

There is ZERO proven causality between social media usage (specifically Meta products) and long-term happiness of a person. All the social science are spurious correlations that can be attributed to anything (including higher education where hysteria about the modern world reins)

As far as $17B settlement, it has nothing to do with causality. It's just some $$$ set aside for Meta to remove operational headaches.

I could even say Meta-haters make more irrational life decisions compared to normal people who just browse Instagram and use WhatsApp without paranoia

	▲	Apocryphon 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Did you just accuse others of not being science-based, while casually handwaving studies away?

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warkdarrior 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And those children are $17B richer today.

	▲	lrvick 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The ones that did not commit suicide get a tiny tiny fraction of that, yes. Your comment implies no harm matters so long as people can sue for it later?

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