Instagram is bad for teens’ self-esteem, and it knows it
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🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:40.5 | It's no secret that Instagram can sometimes make its users, especially those that are |
| 0:45.2 | teenage girls, feel bad about their bodies. When you're scrolling through Instagram and all |
| 0:49.9 | you're seeing is happy faces and pretty things and all these beautiful things you can't help |
| 0:54.9 | wonder why don't I have those beautiful things and how come I don't have a beautiful smile. |
| 1:00.8 | Social media is heavily affecting my body image the way that I look at myself. And unfortunately, |
| 1:07.0 | what's most popular tends to be synonymous with attraction. What's most popular is what's most |
| 1:12.5 | beautiful. This week, the Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell report about Instagram that |
| 1:18.0 | confirmed what most young women already know. The app can be terrible for your mental health. |
| 1:24.1 | In the company knows it too. The Wall Street Journal says Facebook research is repeatedly |
| 1:28.6 | warned that the photo sharing platform can harm mental health and body image, especially |
| 1:33.0 | for teenage girls. The internal Facebook report puts it bluntly. We make body image issues |
| 1:39.0 | worse for one in three teen girls. Our very own Peter Kafka interviewed the head of Instagram, |
| 1:45.5 | Adam Asari, on the recode media podcast this week and he asked him about that report. Here's Peter. |
| 1:53.4 | I'm here with Adam Asari who is head of Instagram. Welcome Adam. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:57.8 | Uh, you've had a week. It has been a busy week. It's been a busy 18 months, but it's been a |
| 2:03.2 | particularly busy week. You're here in New York. You went to the Met Gala on Monday and on Tuesday, |
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