Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]

Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by DougN7 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:49PM (#31277691)

That’s a great point and it gave me the epiphany that perhaps being always on/connected, i.e. smart phones combined with everything else is actually the cause of change. You can’t just get up and walk away (obviously you can put your phone down, but then you are cut off!)

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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by R_VelJohnson on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:41AM (#31286482)

I think about this often. Without smartphones, none of the problems we blame on social media would exist. We've gained a lot from the smartphone form factor (I haven't been lost in 10 years, for example), but whether we've lost more is a really open question, in my view.

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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by abnercoimbre on Thursday May 05, 2022 @05:53PM (#31278778)

And being cut off means you lose potentially life-altering opportunities?

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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by DougN7 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:44PM (#31296779)

Does it though? It’s like the lottery - you pay a lot for that tiny chance.

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