If you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more. Opinions are the writer’s own and not those of Blavity's. ____ For nearly four hours on Monday, October 4, the world seemingly came to a halt. Reports started to stream in that Facebook’s family of apps was experiencing an unexpected outage. Facebook’s share price dropped by roughly 5%, and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth tumbled by about $7 billion — a story for another day. This comes on the heels of a decision from the company last week, that tech industry experts thought was impossible: Users got Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, to halt plans for the rollout of Instagram for Kids, a product it knew, based on its own research, could cause irreparable harm to a vulnerable population. The fact is, Facebook’s harmful impact on young people’s mental health is just the tip of the iceberg...
