Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

Re:Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s me... by wyre on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:28PM (#35115767)

Social media and cyberbullying leads to suicide and has and does kill people. This is particularly bad when those alt-f4’ing their life are adolescents and not post-midlife when smoking will kill.

It seems like it’s too early to tell how severe the second and third order effects of social media are on one’s own well-being and the well-being of society.

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Re:Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s me... by comfypotato on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:14AM (#35119182)

My language allowed for the acknowledgement of few and far between cases of suicide. It’s not a fair comparison to smoking deaths. Social media suicides get a lot of attention because, like you said, adolescent suicide is particularly sad. The numbers, however, are completely different orders of magnitudes; deaths by social media are insignificant when compared to smoking.

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