Why Instagram’s Tools Will Never Truly Protect Our Mental Health

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If you haven’t heard yet, Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, recently announced a new set of tools aimed at helping protect people’s mental health while using their product. These include features like:

• Tools where parents and guardians can view how much time their teens spend on Instagram and set time limits.

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• A ‘Take A Break’ feature where users who have “been scrolling for a certain amount of time” will receive a notification asking them “to take a break from Instagram and suggest that they set reminders to take more breaks in the future.”

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A return to a chronological feed as well as a whole array of other changes like stopping people from tagging or mentioning teens that don’t follow them, nudging teens towards different topics if they’ve been dwelling on one topic for a while, being stricter about what they recommend to teens in Search, Explore, Hashtags and Suggested Accounts, and a few other changes which you can read about in Mosseri’s original…