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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

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506 points imakwana | 3 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.764s | source
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ryandrake ◴[21 Apr 25 05:33 UTC] No.43748740[source]▶
50 years from now, we are going to be looking back at Social Media and Smartphone addiction like we currently look at smoking. “How insane were we to have allowed it and allowed it to be promoted?” our grandchildren will rightly ask!
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1. drilbo ◴[21 Apr 25 05:45 UTC] No.43748781[source]▶
tbf, I think pre-AI social media will barely receive a paragraph in a 2075 history book.
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2. quaintdev ◴[21 Apr 25 05:48 UTC] No.43748795[source]▶
No it will. Because it's the beginning of all that happened after it.
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3. highwaylights ◴[21 Apr 25 06:12 UTC] No.43748900[source]▶
Maybe the record of history itself will change. When it’s all LLM’s feeding into each other then how long until every whackadoo conspiracy theory becomes a historical fact?