“I think it has effects on everybody. Increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism,” the Democratic Congresswoman said.
In an interview posted Sunday on Yahoo News’ Skullduggery podcast, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democratic Congresswoman, said she’s given up posting on Facebook FB, -0.28% calling it a “public health risk,” and said she is also cutting back on her use of Twitter TWTR, -0.23% and Instagram, where she has 3.94 million followers and 3.2 million followers, respectively. Her official Facebook page has more than 738,300 followers.
In April 2018, Facebook said that 2 billion users likely have had their public profile information scraped by outsiders without their explicit permission. It also said that information from the profiles of up to 87 million people had their data “improperly shared” by Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based political consulting firm that closed operations in May 2018. Facebook refrained from calling it a data breach and, instead, said Cambridge Analytica abused Facebook’s terms of service.
“I think it is a bridge too far to say it is a cult like atmosphere,” said Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It is a place where we have become accustomed to sharing our lives, to checking in with friends, to seeing that we are wanted, a part of things, part of a group, thought of.” It is, she said, a community.
“Folks reach out to inquire where you are, what’s wrong, whether you’re depressed, or if you’ve done something to them,” she said. “These cult-like members can be compared to kids who, when they don’t feel satisfied with a tablespoon of mom’s good attention, misbehave negatively in order to sustain mom’s attention. In other words, any attention is better than none, even if it’s negative.”
Missing a party on a Friday night pre-Facebook pales in comparison to the hubbub on social media every single day. Rego said people have a fear of missing out on stuff that happens on Facebook. “Facebook has 2.3 billion monthly active users. Imagine that as a potential big party going on,” he said. FOMO for teenagers before Facebook was created in 2004 was bad enough, but missing a party on a Friday night pales in comparison to the constant hubbub on social media every single day.
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