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I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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> 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…

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Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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> 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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Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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Amazing 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.

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Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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post #10
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Amazing 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.

Or -more likely- being afraid of a new ideological framework (wokeness) is a moral panic (like the war on drugs, communist scares, etc.)

Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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> 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…

I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance.

Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression.

Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do?

Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!

Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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This 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?

Yes, read the other talking points this applause cow for conservative viewpoints is peddling. It has nothing to do with thinking for himself and everything with jumping the bandwagon.

Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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It has two main issues: 1. Filters and constant bombardment of beauty and model influencer 2. Bombardment of all the news (climate change, ai take jobs,.political unrest) while neither being able to bring it in relation and also seeing real issues.

Actually, I think these two issues are actually not the cause of the depressions. I think its mainly because people who are constantly on social media are: Not productive Not social Not fun.

I think its mostly loneliness. I see groups af girls just watching their phones together. Parents looking at their phones while the child is trying to get attention. It's the fakeness of it all.

The things you name the reasons why the social media is addictive. Not why it is harmful.

Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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post #10
post #3

Amazing 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.

Here is "wokeness" as defined by the lawyer for the leader of the anti-woke brigade:

> Asked what “woke” means more generally, [Desantis’ General Counsel Ryan] Newman said “it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”

> Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ Communications Director said “woke” was a “slang term for activism…progressive activism” and a general belief in systemic injustices in the country.

Theoretically, this inherently hyper-political stuff does not belong on HN, yet it's often tolerated here for some reason.

Re: I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

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> 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…

I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance. Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression. Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do? Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!

It’s related to a previous post that shows liberals being more negatively affected by social media/phones and earlier.
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