5/9/2023 0 Comments Clarissa dalloway![]() ![]() ![]() People are negotiating new ways of being in each other’s proximity. (“I’m sick of being perceived,” one woman said this summer, explaining why she would keep wearing her face mask outside despite relaxed CDC guidance on the matter.) But the internet has brought new acuity to the old experience of watching oneself being watched. ![]() Such transactions are not limited to the digital environment. Instagram, in that way, is both a choice and not a choice at all-a trap saturated in the language of easy freedoms: Post, comment, like. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.” Here, though, is another finding: Many of the same young people who spoke of Instagram’s degradations kept returning to the service anyway. “Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the company’s internal research revealed. In September, The Wall Street Journal published a report, based on leaked documents, describing Facebook’s awareness of the harmful effects one of its platforms was having on young people. ![]()
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