• UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Go to pubmed. Type “social media mental health”. Read the studies, or the reviews if you don’t have the time.

      The average American teenager spends 4.8 hours/day on social media. Increased use of social media is associated with increased rates of depression, eating disorders, body image dissatisfaction, and externalizing problems. These studies don’t show causation, but guess what, we literally cannot show causation in most human studies because of ethics.

      Social media drastically alters peer interactions, with negative interactions (bullying) associated with increased rates of self harm, suicide, internalizing and externalizing problems.

      Mobile phone use alone is associated with sleep disruption and daytime sleepiness.

      Looking forward to your peer-reviewed critiques of these studies claiming they are all “just vibes.”

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        Kids these days with their new fangled smartphones. Back in my day we made new friends at a lynching or at the sockhop.

        Everything after I was 21 is shit!

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            The homicide rate and suicide rate are inversely correlated. One goes up the other goes down. As a whole the country is getting less violent so this is a predictable result. And it doesn’t require anyone to invent a communist plot to sap and unpurify our precious bodily fluids or gay frogs.

            I agree it’s far from ideal. I might suggest that we don’t actively work hard to kill the middle class and maybe stop school shootings. But we won’t do that when it is easier for us to blame Emmanuel Goldste— sorry tik Tok.

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          Pretty disingenuous to say this person is acting like an antivaxxer for reading medical journals, when one comment down you admit to forming your opinion by browsing nature, and not being a field expert yourself.

          Your comments display hypocrisy and you should commit one way or another.

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          If you do the search I suggested you will find relevant reviews immediately. If you add keywords based on my post text you will find the primary sources immediately.

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      5 months ago

      No, it’s just based on vibes.

      You didn’t bother looking, clearly.

      Edit: I’m not saying I’m familiar with what the studies say, although some draw a clear link with adverse mental health impacts on kids. Not sure how far that goes. I’m also not saying I agree with the SG or the need for warning labels, but to say this is based on “vibes” is, ironically, speculative at best.

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      5 months ago

      Playing hide and seek with kids when you just want a moments peace, picking up a throw pillow off the couch and looking under that, “gosh I just can’t find a single kid and I’m looking so hard”