Talk about unintended consequences!
and you can access "God Mode," allowing users to see who their secret admirers might be — is "intrinsically problematic," preying on teenage insecurity as a means of generating profit.. "They don't have fully-grown brains, have grown up in a context where their online identity is inseparable from their offline identity and are in a pressure cooker with high school.
Indeed, as Samuel suggests, comparison is central to the app. While all of the app-generated prompts are technically nice, users are still voting on who, out of a list of specific names, has a certain good attribute. And by purchasing God Mode — which is expensive even by adult standards — to peel back anonymity, the app doesn't just add another level of drama and complexity to teenage life. It monetizes teens' desire to know if they're popular, almost certainly breeding even more insecurity if users don't find what they're looking for.
In other words, though it has friendlier packaging, Gas is just another wolf in gossipy sheep's clothing. "We just have to be really realistic about what level of psychological [pressure] we're asking for from kids," Samuel told the paper, "and not hand them technologies and tools designed to prey on their anxieties rather than assuaging them."
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