Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
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Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
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Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#2If it's over 50% then it's no problem, they can just quit it without fearing network effects. There will be enough users in the new platform.
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#3If it's over 50% then it's no problem, they can just quit it without fearing network effects. There will be enough users in the new platform.
What new platform? Why won’t the new platform be just as bad?
Switching brand of cigarettes doesn’t protect your lungs.
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#4If it's over 50% then it's no problem, they can just quit it without fearing network effects. There will be enough users in the new platform.
What new platform? Why won’t the new platform be just as bad? Switching brand of cigarettes doesn’t protect your lungs.
It will be just as bad, I'm just mocking this stupid survey.
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
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#6It would be interesting to see whether people think news networks also harm their mental health.
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#7As a side note, I'm a little saddened when I see friends apologize for their posts. There's such a reaction to "influencer culture" that people feel like foodgrams and humblebrags are a terrible thing, and in excess they certainly can be, but I think from most people it's a billion times better than strawman political arguments and manipulative media that is far worse for our mental health than just comparing ourselves to someone's good day.
I had a friend post a picture of food made from ingredients they had made in their own garden, and it made them feel so good to eat it because they had had a rough year and it was a good personal win, so they apologetically posted a photo of it.
Forget the rest of the trash on Facebook - seeing a friend I haven't seen in a while experience something good and being able to share that with them is something we need more of in the world. I'd trade away all the "only geniuses can remember the order of operations for this future scam page" or "you won't believe how this person misrepresents their opponents views and tears that misrepresentation apart!" and keep stuff like this.
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#8Most important paragraph, IMO:
> Conducted Oct. 8 to 10, the online poll surveyed 1,545 Canadians and cannot be assigned a margin of error because internet-based polls are not considered random samples.
It's a pretty good sample-size, but we don't get error bars. I don't remember if there was anything FB-critical happening that week (when did the study about teen mental health come out?), but the timeframe could also affect the survey.
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#9Last I checked, studies on the issue of social media and mental health are pretty mixed and inconclusive. But it is a popular belief regardless
Re: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
#10If it's over 50% then it's no problem, they can just quit it without fearing network effects. There will be enough users in the new platform.
How do you figure 50%? It's not like groups of friends are going to put it to a vote and say "Let's go use this other thing". And even if they did, alternatives to Facebook simply don't exist for people to switch to (I'd be happy for somebody to give me an example of a comparable service to what Facebook offers in terms of features and ease of use).
And even if one does exist, most groups of people aren't going to abandon the From the article:
> However, more than three in four believe the social network helps them stay connected to their loved ones, with just over 50 per cent saying it is key to sharing information and positive for free expression.