Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness

Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by taeric on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:50AM (#35629695)

Ish. Trash talking is a huge thing in sports. Similarly many prudish administrators go out of their way to punish the players for celebrations and such.

Edit: And I'm curious how this relates to the topic at hand. Not that I think it is unrelated, but specifically how. We seem to be in rather strong agreement that it is the relationship with a thing that is unhealthy, with regards to sports. Why or how would that be different with regards to social media?

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Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by saltcured on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:10PM (#35632733)

The connection I see is something like "imaginary tribalism". The members of an audience form a one-sided sense of belonging that distorts their behaviors.

The mechanism seems to be the "media" part. All the promotional content is blasted out at scale in a way that triggers this false or amplified sense of social engagement. It's not the social part of social media that hurts, so much as the media platform part that enables so many promoters to thrive.

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Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by taeric on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:54PM (#35633203)

How much is an amplified sense of authority? It isn't just that there are promoters, but many of these promoters really dig into the ideas that they have the answers.

This leans into all media and aligns with how much credence is given to pundits. People with good ideas wind up digging in and pushing that they have the only reasonable idea.

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