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Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by swayvil »

sbf501 wrote: post #13

I'd like to see similar study about the original gateway drug: "24-hour News Channels", which was followed by "24-hour Outrage-News Channels". Seems like we've been building toward this, the interactivity of the internet was the paradigm shift (to use a 90's term). EDIT: I realize it isn't news messing with youths' self-esteem (well, in some cases it is), but it is related in that the media is custom-made to drive en…

Books, radio, tv, videogames, internet, vr...

A progression of machines for interacting with dreams more deeply. A progreassion of better and better dream amplifiers.

Dreams becoming a bigger part of our life

Expert dreamers making the big bucks

A whole population with one foot in dreamland.

You ever noticed how fiction is everywhere? And advertising. And propaganda.

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by wahnfrieden »

tmpz22 wrote: post #44
wahnfrieden wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you know you can look at profiles, not just the feed?

So if we engage with facebook more, and invest more time, we can have slightly better content?

No, the context of this thread is a study on mentally harmful content. I’m not here to coach people on seeking quality Facebook content

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by Bakary »

racheltanks wrote: post #39
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #23

Anecdotally, Facebook seems relatively tame these days compared to the firehose of doom & gloom, violent videos, outrage porn, and outright misinformation that fills Reddit and Twitter. Browsing Reddit’s default feeds or popular posts is a wild experience these days.

Twitter is poison

What I find odd about Twitter is that the toxicity level is off the charts. It's not as bad as say, the wilder 4chan boards or Kiwifarms, but it's worse than almost anything else.

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by viridian »

mcrad wrote: post #21
sbf501 wrote: post #13

I'd like to see similar study about the original gateway drug: "24-hour News Channels", which was followed by "24-hour Outrage-News Channels". Seems like we've been building toward this, the interactivity of the internet was the paradigm shift (to use a 90's term). EDIT: I realize it isn't news messing with youths' self-esteem (well, in some cases it is), but it is related in that the media is custom-made to drive en…

Engagement with broadcast TV vs with hyper-personalized apps is a specious comparison.

People aren't as unique and individualized as one might think. A half dozen channels, and thus permutations of outrage content is likely plenty enough to capture the overwhelming majority of the population's attention.

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by dchftcs »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #30

I do not care for this trend of omitting the publication date from news articles. Temporal context is very relevant in news articles, especially to assess whether the information has been superseded. (I know, one can often find the publication date in the HTML source, but that requires savvy, and should not be necessary.)

Yeah, and sometimes that's the point. Some sites do this probably to improve viewership of older articles. I don't understand why a university would do this though.

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by Minor49er »

isodev wrote: post #18
burlesona wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most in-person social activity is good for your mental health. Studies show this includes church: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776270553/hidden-brain-does-g... Facebook is singled out because they are the largest practitioner of surveillance capitalism. The entire idea of “optimizing for engagement,” where Facebook has been a pioneer and the largest player, is increasingly being shown to be a primary driver of poli…

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It's a safe place for your spiritual health

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by viridian »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #23

Anecdotally, Facebook seems relatively tame these days compared to the firehose of doom & gloom, violent videos, outrage porn, and outright misinformation that fills Reddit and Twitter. Browsing Reddit’s default feeds or popular posts is a wild experience these days.

It's to the point where I, as someone who has used reddit for over a decade now (somewhat regrettably), will never, for any reason, ever click the snoo/homepage link in the top left corner. The thought of doing so reminds me of the nuclear waste repository warning:

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by retrac »

isodev wrote: post #18
burlesona wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most in-person social activity is good for your mental health. Studies show this includes church: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776270553/hidden-brain-does-g... Facebook is singled out because they are the largest practitioner of surveillance capitalism. The entire idea of “optimizing for engagement,” where Facebook has been a pioneer and the largest player, is increasingly being shown to be a primary driver of poli…

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That's probably why some LGBT folks went and founded the MCC back in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Community_Church

The institution of traditional religion played a social role in Western societies that has not been adequately patched over by anything else yet. Even as a non-religious person, I do take seriously the hypothesis that the decline in regular church attendance accounts for some of the social isolation crisis. (That is of course, hardly the whole picture. A similar argument can be made about union meetings or youth clubs, both of which have also declined significantly in regular attendance over the last half century.)

Re: Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

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Post by matai_kolila »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #38
matai_kolila wrote: post #31

IDK... I know Facebook feeds are different for each person but for me there are basically zero posts from people I know on Facebook anymore, it's just ads and videos of random TikTok style videos.

Did you know you can look at profiles, not just the feed?

True, I do use Facebook profiles to remember the names of the children of my friends/family. But I can't remember the last "wall" I saw that had anything from this year on it.
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