Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
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Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#2Can relate, I haven’t missed it a bit.
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#3It was the best thing I ever did.
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#4I second that.
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#5the new is interesting however the article is just a quote from another article and a study. It ends up not pointing out any valuable information, like what are the underlying mechanisms. Basically a copycat to get free visitors traffic.
Questions I wish there were answered: is it about anxious browsing? anxious goshipping? compare oneself to others? compulsive procrastination? does it apply to other social networks, is it related to general screen time or just mindless consuming? would movies and stronger leisure activities have a similar effect or just compulsive social network browsing and the mental drain of feeling like comparing to others?
EDIT: spell and formating
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#6I'm predisposed to believe this is true... But I can't find a link to any evidence or research in the OP, which is a fluffy piece with little actual content. I'm flagging the OP unless someone posts a link to either evidence or higher quality content.
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#7(1) This article is pretty low-quality, and provides no sources for anything. It certainly sounds plausible enough, but still...
(2) Assuming that this is true for Facebook, I'm pretty sure the same result would hold true for any other social media site for short-form content (e.g. Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc).
(3) I'm LESS sure about sites for sharing longer-form writing, such as Reddit and HN. I suspect that the effect is not as stark, but that it does hold true to SOME extent whenever you have the gamification of upvotes and downvotes.
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#8It seems that throughout history, we've discovered things that were exciting and hyped only to later realize that the addictiveness was damaging for society, leading us to regulating it (or attempting to do so).
I wonder if what we're going through right now with social media will look irresponsible and quaint the way smoking does in Mad Men at some point in the future.
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#9I wonder, have fb quitters stopped using all social media? Have they also stopped visiting news websites?
My point is, is Facebook the only negativity inducing platform? I know for me it isn't. The question is how do you deal with the rest of them? Do you balance news intake against the impact on your mental health or you stop consuming news entirely, because in the end whatever it's set to happen will happen regardless?
Re: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
#10Whatsapp growth is off the charts - that's the vertical to attack IMO.