Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and mental health

Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by ravenstine on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:47PM (#28813599)

To be honest, I don't really care about studies, let alone Facebook's own studies. I've seen enough.

Life immediately became less depressing after leaving social media for good. Because my family, especially my cousins, use Facebook and Instagram for communication I'm still forced to use them to a minimal extent. When I do use them, I don't see a lot of happy people. In fact I see a lot of signs of mental instability in the profiles that these two sites want me to see and friend/follow. Lots of narcissism.

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by zenmaster10665 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:57PM (#28813670)

So you prefer to use anecdotes to decide how technology is affecting society, rather than data?

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by ravenstine on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:43PM (#28815563)

I weigh data with experience, and after enough "here is why X is bad" and "why X isn't bad after all", I heavily weigh my experience over corporate/journalistic poppycock.

Guess what? Not all data is good.

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by pixl97 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:03PM (#28819975)

So anecdotes it is.

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by ravenstine on Sunday October 10, 2021 @07:10PM (#28822795)

I hope you don't live life just believing what people tell you and not forming your own opinions. That would be a sad, robotic existence.

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by pixl97 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:19PM (#28823583)

The thing about opinions is they are at best, shallow, and at worst incorrect.

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Re:Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and ... by listless on Saturday October 09, 2021 @09:18PM (#28814921)

I can backup that experience with my own. I can also say my life has even more dramatically improved since I stopped paying attention to the news cycle. But nobody is going to study that.

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