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No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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Post by sim7c00 »

"drugs r bad m'kay"

it's painfuly obvious the opposite is true. either mental health problems is boxed in too narrow, or the title is misleading to what the actual findings are. for example ' following a methodology of xyz there is no direct scinetific evidence of abc'.

many people say their mental health improved a lot when quitting social media. less anxiety, self-image issues, lack of confidence etc.

also ots relatively obvious more social media time is less being mindful and attentive to ones surroundings, less time outside etc. absorbing and experiencing the real world.

many things untested in an experiment or research doesnt mean evidence is not there... it was just omitted due to a narrow scoped experiment trying to draw way to broad and general conclusions.

especially in social studies this has to stop. 'we polled 1k people and now draw a conclusion about a billion or more people'. no thanks.

Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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sim7c00 wrote: post #31

"drugs r bad m'kay" it's painfuly obvious the opposite is true. either mental health problems is boxed in too narrow, or the title is misleading to what the actual findings are. for example ' following a methodology of xyz there is no direct scinetific evidence of abc'. many people say their mental health improved a lot when quitting social media. less anxiety, self-image issues, lack of confidence etc. also ots rela…

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Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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Post by Jimpulse »

beala wrote: post #17
Jimpulse wrote: post #10

Jonathan Haidt, who's been driving a lot of the work against social media for kids, directly refutes these findings in this post https://www.afterbabel.com/p/fundamental-flaws-part-3 .

Refutes is a strong word. This is an ongoing debate and it’s not clear to me Haidt is on the right side of it. The Studies Show did a great episode on this, but unfortunately it’s paywalled. However, the show notes are public and link to the relevant back and forth if folks want to make up their own minds. https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/paid-only-episode-12-jon... Edit: And here’s a link to their earlier free ep…

By refute I mean the paper cited. The meta-analysis methodology used in the Ferguson paper is flawed, one of After Babel's contributors goes into more detail here, https://shoresofacademia.substack.com/p/perils-of-flawed-met....

Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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cwoolfe wrote: post #24

Ok, now let's see the study that shows it is beneficial to teen mental health. I quit it and my mental health improved. Many others in a controlled study found the same effect. Alcott and colleagues (2020) randomly assigned 2743 adults to either deactivate their Facebook accounts for one month or not. This study also found that deactivation significantly improved subjective well-being and that “80% of the treatment g…

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Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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Post by Amorymeltzer »

Jimpulse wrote: post #10

Jonathan Haidt, who's been driving a lot of the work against social media for kids, directly refutes these findings in this post https://www.afterbabel.com/p/fundamental-flaws-part-3 .

The If Books Could Kill podcast did a good episode about this topic and Haidt's book in particular: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15546366-the-anx...>

Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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Post by ada1981 »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #20
lazyeye wrote: post #12

Memories of tobacco "researchers" claiming the science linking smoking to cancer is inconclusive.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

"They are eating the dogs. They are eating the cats." - Former US President

(Cue the downvotes!)

Re: No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

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Post by randomdata »

cwoolfe wrote: post #24

Ok, now let's see the study that shows it is beneficial to teen mental health. I quit it and my mental health improved. Many others in a controlled study found the same effect. Alcott and colleagues (2020) randomly assigned 2743 adults to either deactivate their Facebook accounts for one month or not. This study also found that deactivation significantly improved subjective well-being and that “80% of the treatment g…

Do teens even use social media? I am under the impression that they are all about what is effectively cable TV. That is what the hip-and-with it services provide, and what the boomer social media platforms are more and more clamouring to become.

Social media is for old people still trying to re-live what the internet was like 20 years ago. And, I expect, that is the tree you actually want to bark up. Does parental social media use impact their children negatively? That answer to that is probably yes.

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