Late Wednesday night, Facebook quietly posted two social media sites that report their in-depth research on Instagram’s impact on the health of the young user. Two decks (which you can see for yourself Pano and Pano) formed the spine of recent research The author of The Wall Street Journal reported on a study by the company that was targeting young people – and girls in particular.
Since the report was released earlier this month, we’ve seen Facebook do what Facebook does best: PR problems. In the meantime, this includes the company’s public criticism of some of the Journal’s earlier statements. “breathing“His work on his Instagram Kids app. The company was also coercion to release some of the in-depth surveys to the public and to lawmakers Thursday morning, when Facebook’s chief security officer, Antigone Davis, is due to meet with exaggerated and the Senate Commerce Committee.
And Facebook was forced. But naturally, because this is Facebook, the slides will be captured – in this case, it’s full of boat on what was searched in the original search.
“Our internal research is part of our efforts to ensure that our platform has the best possible results,” they read together. “We use this research to identify where we can improve and support users who are experiencing difficulties in their lives – which is why reports often focus on areas that can be improved from their experience.”
For those who don’t remember the original Journal report, much of the internal research took a pretty good price; some Instagram users often come in anxious or frustrated, for example, or that the platform amplifies the imagery of girls “one in three” girls. In pictures showing that “many young people [who use Instagram] the report feels that he has a health problem, “the term really deserves the definition of a mental health slide,” cannot be assumed to mean medical, educational or academic meaning. An Instagram photo of ‘effects’ on teen life states that “the word ‘consequences’ here is not used properly.”
“The study was not designed to identify the ‘effect’ of Instagram on well-being in a causal sense,” Facebook noted, “But is rather perception-based by asking those who took the survey to self-report.” Another slide describing how one in five teens point to Instagram as having a negative impact on their self-esteem—with UK teens featuring the most serious self-esteem effects—features the annotation that “this research was not intended to (and does not) evaluate causal claims between Instagram and health or well-being.” Attempts to downplay descriptions of the platform’s “casual” effects are pretty rampant in the annotations across both slide decks.
Facebook’s past attempts at crisis PR have continually exploded in front of the company. In response to Facebook’s claim that the Wall Street Journal has “he did not disclose his findings,” newspaper published five internal components from the media group. One yes new search images. Issues related to communication are particularly prevalent on a platform that is detrimental to the health of young people a find that audience very strong. In other words, this is another Facebook story to deal with its complex problems only when those problems have disrupted its growth. And that’s the whole company he cares at the end of the day.