Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by Alex3917 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:25AM (#25929305)

> Social media damages everyone's mental health it seems.

Does it? I've been using social media extensively for almost 30 years now (and now building social platforms for nearly a decade), and a lot of the biggest opportunities I've gotten in my life/career have come from social media. Whatever anxiety it can cause on a day-to-day basis, I feel like you more than make back in various benefits over the long term.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by ChrisRR on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:36AM (#25929453)

You literally just said it, it causes anxiety on a day to day basis. Whether you're handling that anxiety well or not, it's not healthy to be managing anxiety on a daily basis.

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