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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by skratlo on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:20PM (#25932584)
> Social media platforms are one of the most accessible forms of long-distance communication

E-mail? Have you heard of it? Signal? Other IM platforms. And you continue on selling social media as means of friendly communication which is not true. There's gazillion alternatives but those were all eaten up by the giants. All those use cases and people that you mentioned used mailing lists before and were doing just fine.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by Hendrikto on Saturday January 30, 2021 @07:03AM (#25968411)
It says “one of” the most accessible, which is undeniable.

> And you continue on selling social media as means of friendly communication which is not true.

No, I do not. The section about negative effects is much longer, and the conclusion drawn at the end also damns social media. In a scientific paper, you have to present both sides.

I just included the positive effects section here, because somebody asked.

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