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#MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #SocialMedia Even Facebook agrees that social media can be  bad for your mental health . And research by the Department of Education has found that the mental well-being of teenage girls in the UK  is worsening , with the impact of social media cited as the cause. Yet  my research  reveals that more people are turning to these platforms for help with their mental health issues. This has been exacerbated as the crisis in the NHS sees  waiting times for appointments  grow. While most of the people I spoke to believed social media helped them, there is a concern that it could be adding to ongoing mental health problems. Mental health has recently become the focus of attention within UK policy, with the proposed  rehash of the Mental Health Act , and the new  Power Threat Meaning framework , which aims to reduce the “medicalization” of mental health. Despite raised awareness of some the issues, more and more...

#Facebook,#Portal  #FacialRecognition #MarkZuckerberg #SocialMedia Trusting Facebook (or not) Facebook does not command a standard level of trust. To recover from recent lows, Facebook needs to establish an extraordinary level of trust with users. A fantastic level of trust. Instead, it’s charting new inroads into their lives. Hardware is hard. Facebook isn’t a hardware maker and its handling of Oculus is the company’s only real trial with the challenges of making, marketing — and securing — something that isn’t a social app.  In 2012, Zuckerberg declared that hardware has “always been the wrong strategy” for Facebook. Two years later, Facebook bought Oculus, but that was a bid to own the platform of the future after missing the boat on the early mobile boom — not a signal that Facebook wanted to be a hardware company. Reminder: Facebook’s entire raison d’être is to extract personal data from its users. For intimate products — video chat, messaging, kitchen-fr...

#Facebook #Instagram #socialmedia #SocialNetworking #stalking By  Ashley Carman   @ashleyrcarman     Jul 20, 2018 Instagram knows all of our secrets, particularly the people we love to stalk. Some people think the company outs our habits to other users in their story. These users believe that the people who populate at the top of your story viewers are the ones who stalk you the most. Maybe your crush is always at the top or maybe it’s your nemesis. It doesn’t matter who. We visited Instagram to speak with Julian Gutman, product lead for Instagram Home, which includes Stories and the Feed to figure out whether there’s any truth to this idea. Also while we were there, Julian and I chatted about the algorithm and the company’s switch to the algorithmic feed. Watch the video above if you want to know how people end up at the top of your viewer's list or the top of your Feed in general.

#SocialMedia #Twitter #SnapChat  #Instagram We sure like social media, don't we? Facebook alone has over 2 billion monthly active users, with a billion of those being daily active users. The average user spends about 35 minutes per day on Facebook. Just to give perspective, that's 350 billion minutes or about 66,000 years worth of human time spent per day...just on Facebook!   Probably most of us are using multiple social media platforms these days. Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook in 2012, has over 700 million active users, Twitter has 328 million, and Snapchat has 255 million. So, perhaps an aggregate amount of time we spend on social media these days is probably closer to 50-60 minutes per day, with many of us averaging well above that number.  A Few Caveats My "proof" that your (and my!) social media posts don't really matter is to mean that they don't matter significantly. We can all think of posts and social media connections that are m...