Social media does not cause depression in children
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Social media does not cause depression in children
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Re: Social media does not cause depression in children
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#3Study of children in a single town. Everything in here runs completely contradictory to the body of science from the past decade.
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#4Something about this doesn’t seem right
Norway also has Seasonal Affective Disorder. But in the USA, all of a sudden with the rise of social media we get such huge statistics:
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/us-teen-girls-considered-a...
Moreover, it isn’t necessarily the AMOUNT of social media one consumes that makes one depressed. It is other factors:
1) Body image
2) Expectations
3) New norms of behavior
4) New social norms
5) New social goals
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#5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aiEqINoa-I
You now can create unrealistic standards via machine and earn hard cash doing so. Monetize all the things, everything has to go.
PS: Psychology is mostly studies on pschology students or other students, which prefilters the result pretty hard. So ever study is basically: "And how does the local well-off elite feel about that?"
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#6Actual paper this is quoting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756322...
This website seems legit, even though the domain sounds like it's some kind of blogspam website.
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#7How do people fairly evaluate the science behind social media? It seems like a topic that thoroughly infected by personal bias. It reminds me of arguments about violent video games and the rise of school violence; two events that are definitely correlated but have no direct evidence linking them to each other.
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#8Study of children in a single town. Everything in here runs completely contradictory to the body of science from the past decade.
Biased sample size as well. Most of the individuals in this study made well over 100k.
An important factor to note:
"Children spend most of their waking hours in day care or in school; therefore it is important to study how aspects of these environments can affect children’s development and functioning. "
This is not the average case scenario as the majority of children on social media and the longest amount of screen use are of children who are often not in after school programs or daycares. The reality is that this study is not a good measure of if social media causes depression or not.
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#9There are a lot of studies that claim the opposite, as a layperson I have a hard time separating them out and determining the quality of these studies other than to compare the relative ranking of the universities where the study was performed, the size of the study, demographics of the study subjects (if provided) and the reputation of the people performing the study.
That gives some handholds but it clearly isn't enough to determine anything that you could act on. From personal observation - which I trust more than any single random study - social media seems to be a net negative or a net positive dependent on social background and on whether or not the participant was socially active or isolated before they started using it. If they were socially active they tend to become less so, and if they were not then they tend to become more so. But that's a super limited sample and it still lumps together people that are from very different backgrounds.
I think in general making blanket statements such as TFA title does here about things where personal interaction is a major factor is fraught with peril and error. These things differ substantially from person to person and even if true in the average case that leaves a lot of room for outliers for whom the experience can be extremely negative (plenty of examples for that) or extremely positive (also plenty of examples).
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#10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aiEqINoa-I You now can create unrealistic standards via machine and earn hard cash doing so. Monetize all the things, everything has to go. PS: Psychology is mostly studies on pschology students or other students, which prefilters the result pretty hard. So ever study is basically: "And how does the local well-off elite feel about that?"
Why do people always complain about unrealistic standards? I can't see how that would be bad. The problem is repeated dopamine hits.