I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression

Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by mock-possum on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:26PM (#34998759)

> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory that wokeness causes misery.

Why is this trash linked on HN?

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by uristohkrat on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:34PM (#34998900)

Hmm, at first I thought your comment was just a low effort post but upon thinking about what the quote was trying to say and to then see immediately the problem they were pointing out. Poetic

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by Headwig on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:37PM (#34998945)

Literally the worst take I've seen in years

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by falseassertions on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:49PM (#34999112)

> Why is this trash linked on HN?

Oh let's not kid ourselves.

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by Qwertysjsjs on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:14PM (#34999475)

I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance.

Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression.

Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do?

Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by mixmastamyk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:36PM (#34999810)

It’s related to a previous post that shows liberals being more negatively affected by social media/phones and earlier.

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by theandrewbailey on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:55PM (#35000084)

I see woke as being viscerally intolerant not only of differing opinions, but also of the people who have them.

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by lolcatuser on Thursday March 02, 2023 @04:05PM (#35002063)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Too often I hear people complain that they're being oppressed for their "differing opinions." A tolerable opinion is something like "my favorite color is blue," not "gay people shouldn't exist." If your opinion revolves around the intolerance of other opinions, then I'm not going to be tolerant towards that.

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by einherjae on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:39PM (#35000770)

I guess if you take woke as meaning seeing unfairness in places that you were previously unaware of being unfair, and combine that with a perceived inability to change that status quo, particularly if that unfairness affects yourself, then that can perhaps correlate with depression?

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by akomtu on Thursday March 02, 2023 @04:13PM (#35002161)

Wokeness was meant to be that: being awake to social problems. And just like many noble beginnings before, this too got co-opted by nefarious actors who substituted ideals with divisive lies. For example, they've turned the concept of seven rays, symbolized by a rainbow, into a cult of skin and genitals. This happened because the founders of the movement didn't define principles that would quickly identify and weed out selfish grifters.

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Re:I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression by dc-programmer on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:41PM (#34999881)

“I want to believe something is true so therefore it is true”. I actually respect the honesty here. Most people think this way but would never admit it.

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