“There are surely some content moderators that haven't suffered mental health problems connected to the job, but I haven't met them,” says sociologist and computer scientist Milagros Miceli, who has studied the content moderation industry for the past six years. “I have no doubt that content moderation, like coal mining, is a hazardous job.” Coal mining, known for the proliferation of ‘black lung disease', is a classic example of a hazardous job, but there are only approximately 200,000 coal (…)
Not only those. I don’t use social media because I get sucked in and waste my time. Friends of mine sometimes send me some reels or videos that they find “funny” that horrify me. Like people who are assaulted or mutilated. They are so desensitized and don’t know it, or just don’t care about it. It’s a shame what social media is doing to our society.
That too. I don’t think being desensitized to certain things is necessarily a bad thing and I genuinely do think some people are predisposed to be desensitized. As a kid, I naturally gravitated towards horror movies and action movies. Trying to be puritan, limiting my intake, etc wouldn’t have helped in the age of the early internet, haha.