I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression
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I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression
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#2The Allcott study compared Facebook vs. no Facebook. Would be interesting to also see and compare that to the results of X vs. no X where X could be messaging app, email or Tik Tok, etc.
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#3Amazing to say something like "I dislike moral panics" to "Im pretty sure the issue is actually wokeness" in one paragraph. Author needs to keep introspecting, good job challenging your self on one idea atleast.
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#4This guy. Of course now that his political allies are beating up on big tech he's going to come around.
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#5> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory that wokeness causes misery.
Why is this trash linked on HN?
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#6This guy. Of course now that his political allies are beating up on big tech he's going to come around.
Is there more context to share?
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#7> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory…
Hmm, at first I thought your comment was just a low effort post but upon thinking about what the quote was trying to say and to then see immediately the problem they were pointing out. Poetic
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#8> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory…
Literally the worst take I've seen in years
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#9No one cares about middle aged people. They are also depressed
Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression
#10Amazing to say something like "I dislike moral panics" to "Im pretty sure the issue is actually wokeness" in one paragraph. Author needs to keep introspecting, good job challenging your self on one idea atleast.
Wokeness is moral panic. We must root out whiteness around every corner.