Mark Zuckerberg leave our kids alone
Not satisfied with being complicit in teen and pre-teen self-harm and suicide, reinforcing narcissistic syndrome with selfies, Zuckerberg now plans to launch Instagram for Kids, aimed at pre-teens.
Just when you thought Facebook couldn’t get worse, could not sink any lower, it invents a fresh kind of hell — Instagram for Kids.
Leaked documents show Facebook is developing a photo-sharing app for under-13s — hoping to get them hooked early on likes and comments about their appearance, and harvest their data for profit.
There is growing opposition to expansion of the evil that is Instagram and Facebook.
Reasons not to use Instagram:
- owned by facebook
- theft and abuse of personal data
- claims ownership rights over images posted
- images do not appear on twitter
- complicit in teen and pre-teen self-harm and suicide
- reinforces narcissistic syndrome through encouragement to post selfies
Instagram is already a nightmare for children, with teenagers getting harassed and abused on a daily basis — 59% of teens have been bullied online, and surveys show Instagram is the worst offender.
Talking to Primary schoolchildren, they tell me of bullying at a Secondary school, to which the school turns a blind eye, of a rape culture, of their friend who jumped to her death off a bridge in front of a train.
This is the world that Facebook has created.
Psychologists say it would be even more harmful for younger children, who are at a crucial stage of development and cannot cope with the relentless pressure of social media.
Facebook claims it’s doing this to make kids safer — because it can’t keep them off Instagram. But that’s like saying let’s promote child porn to keep kids away from adult porn.
Since when has Facebook cared about the harm it causes?
Please sign and share the petition calling on Zuckerberg to Leave Our Kids Alone.
Big Tech must be broken up. Facebook must be broken up, stripped of WhatsApp and Instagram.
Big Tech must be hit with a windfall tax and a revenue tax.
