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Break Up with Social Media

Did you know that the worst social media app for your mental health is Instagram [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/19/instagram-ranked-worst-social-network-young-peoples-mental-health/] ? Did you know that Facebook has hired a large group of employees with backgrounds in social psychology and anthropology [https://www.cjchilvers.com/facebook-is-delusional/] to

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Facebook is Delusional

Moira Burke, Facebook Research Scientist, via No Agenda [https://overcast.fm/+BVlAvM7c/44:57]: > “People are often surprised to learn that we have a large group of researchers here at Facebook with backgrounds in fields like social psychology, communication, and anthropology.” > “Writing a comment on a friend’s

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Is It Unethical to Publish to Facebook?

Last month, Harvard Business Review published an article titled A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel [https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-the-more-you-use-facebook-the-worse-you-feel] . It stated: > "Overall, our results showed that, while real-world social networks were positively associated with overall well-being, the

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5 Good Links

Do the work for free, which (if any) online storytelling platform is for you, what defines a good photograph and should Facebook be messing with journalists’ photos? It’s all in this week’s A Lesser Photographer newsletter.

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Should I Upload It?

Daniela Bowker [https://twitter.com/SmallAperture/status/341509661037584385] pointed this out today, from the Photoworld blog [http://www.photoworld.co.uk/photoworld-blog/should-i-upload-it-a-guide-to-your-next-facebook-profile-pic.html] . It’s a flowchart to help you determine whether you should upload that photo to Facebook: Since Facebook takes your rights and presents ads (not to