Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:06AM (#39988188)

Reddit now is not even vaguely close to the site it used to be. Doomerism is popular on Reddit because the power users are Reddit are basically everyone who failed life. Can't get a job, can't find a partner, no friend, and normally for reasons their own fault.

Those people used to be social shunned and live on the edge of town but now their voice gets amplified 1000x because they are willing to live online 24/7 and take control of discourse.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by Teever on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:42AM (#39989183)

Can you really say they failed at life when they have so much power over society? Some moderators have control over an audiance of millions, something media moguls like Ted Turner dreamed of in the beginning of his career.

If anything the real losers are the people like you and me who frequent the site but didn't take advantage of the opportunity that it provides.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by dimgl on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:33AM (#39989495)

> Can you really say they failed at life when they have so much power over society?

They don't, it's all temporary. Other communities and companies are being created to circumvent this.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by doublerabbit on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:28AM (#39991094)

> If anything the real losers are the people like you and me who frequent the site but didn't take advantage of the opportunity that it provides.

What am I exactly losing out on by not visiting?

What opportunities do reddit provide for me in comparison of me going swimming tonight?

What are the benefits of an hour worth of scrolling, exhausting myself mentally reading people's comments?

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by Strom on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:56AM (#39991413)

Reddit is so huge that making general statements about it is as useful as making general statements about the web.

You could be reading about interesting places near you where to go swimming. About swimming techniques. Cool adventure stories related to swimming. Etc.

There are plenty of useful posts and comments. They are also hidden in a sea of shit, just like the rest of the web.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by doublerabbit on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:27AM (#39991807)

> There are plenty of useful posts and comments. They are also hidden in a sea of shit, just like the rest of the web.

Sure, but such information I could look up the same from some swimming book at the library and find it quicker. The time required to discover those comments are not of worth when I just want to go swimming, I don't swim for anything other than leisure and just paddling about.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by spxneo on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:57PM (#39993772)

I think its hilarious you think reddit mods hold sway over society when the rest of us who don't use reddit consider it to be 4chan with login

one good examples are city subreddits. they are almost always toxic and negative. lately they cleaned it up but I remember subreddits like r/vancouver were a cesspool of angry white locals who were convinced the CCP laundering money was why they couldn't afford homes

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by RGamma on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:56PM (#39994428)

How do you define doomerism? On the opposite end there's toxic positivity where Problems Aren't Real.

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