GitHub - pierotofy/social-media-warning-labels: Voluntarily add warning labels to social media websites. Available for Chrome.

Social Media Warning Labels

Voluntarily add informative warning labels to social media websites.

Why?

There is a significant association between social media use and depression. Recently the surgeon general of the United States called on congress to require warning labels. While warning labels are not a sure-fire way to curb use, they can be effective provided that:

• The warning must provide new information to users, and
• The user must find the information credible

Installation

• Chrome: clone this repository, go to chrome://extensions/ and click Load Unpacked, then select the chrome folder.

Add more sites

By default a handful of sites will display the warning labels. You can add more by right-clicking the extension and selecting Options.

Also consider opening a pull request to add more default sites.

TODO

• Add more sources and labels to content.js

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here's some ideas for a pull request:

• Firefox extension
• More informative warning messages and sources
• Display a timer showing total time spent on a particular site

License

AGPLv3