Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by Nasrudith on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:29PM (#25932726)

I think you have the causation exactly backwards - the vain culture is what gave rise to social media. Japanese "social media" including forums and image boards are biased towards being nonentity as possible. Famous cat owners make efforts to be non-entity as possible compared to US ones often involving owner presence even if just dangling a toy and talking to the cat.

Japan sure as hell isn't perfect socially but they demonstrate that the source of social problems may be found in the mirror collectively and not in new technology.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by scndalousarbite on Saturday February 06, 2021 @01:48PM (#26048803)

No. Entrepreneurs understood our cultures tendency towards vanity, self reflective and voyeuristic exhibition, and created businesses based on this. Social media was the exploitation and exaggeration of that vanity. What it is now is a huge business and opportunity for marketing and social control.

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