Facebook Conceded It Might Make You Feel Bad. Here’s How to Interpret That.
Social media, the company said in a blog post, can often make you feel good — but sometimes it can also make you feel bad.
The post stands as a direct affront to the company’s reason for being; it’s as if Nike asked whether just doing it may not be
the wisest life goal after all, or if Snapple conceded it wasn’t quite positive that it really was the best stuff on earth.
Its business model and its more airy social mission depend on the idea
that social media is a new and permanently dominant force in the human condition.
For several years, people have asked whether social media, on an individual level
and globally, might be altering society and psychology in negative ways.
Yes, the company noted, people who spend a lot of time “passively consuming” social feeds do tend to feel worse.
