Dr Vivek Murthy asks for required labels that state ‘social media is associated with significant mental health harms’
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 months ago

    I started smoking as a teenager after those warnings were put on cigarettes. I did it despite knowing it was addictive and it was bad for me.

    Kids don’t give a shit. They think they’re immortal.

    But sure, waste your time.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      Those warnings had a statistically significant effect on smoking rates. Just because it doesn’t work on everyone doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.

    • fah_Q@lemmy.ca
      12·
      6 months ago

      Can’t wait to have to sign in with your driver’s license to get on Facebook think of the children.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 months ago

      The idea of a warning is not because anyone thinks you’re going to read it and get scared and stop doing the thing you’re hooked on.

      The idea of a warning label is so your ice-age brain, the brain that loves to make up stories to explain things, has something to connect with when you start having a negative experience on something like social media, or something to help you realize that the thing, whatever it may be, is addictive and the reason you’re having problems is because of that addictive quality. We greatly overestimate our brains and our capacity to properly identify threats and tell ourselves the correct story to escape the threat.