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A comment on UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health. Parent comment

Re:UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks ha... by p1esk on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:46PM (#14405177)
I just hope you see how ironic the parent's comment seems, because everything he tried to distance himself from on other sites: addiction, distraction, "constant consumption", seeing "very best slices of everyone's lives" - it's all here.
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Re:UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks ha... by dwaltrip on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:13PM (#14405840)
I understand what you are saying, and acknowledge that HN has some of those things. I simply disagree that they are as prevalent or severe on HN, on average, compared to sites like FB.

Perhaps in time more people will be able to use Facebook (and HN) more judiciously, as you do. That would be a good trend I think.

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