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 slothtrop on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:35AM (#39991906)

> We know that kids on social media are suffering depression and etc.

We know it raises likelihood, that doesn't mean they're all depressed and anxious across the board, and those afflictions are on a gradient. Younger generations appear to be optimizing for it more effectively.

It doesn't make sense to cast society at large as "suffering and addicted". Downstream from that, the downsides of sheltering your children from society loom larger than their being socialized among peers who use social media.

> I’ll be okay raising the social outcast if the society is this damaged.

You do that.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by Andrex on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:27PM (#39994099)

> > I’ll be okay raising the social outcast if the society is this damaged.

> You do that.

You don't hear really about Amish kids killing themselves. Maybe there's something there.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by slothtrop on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:22PM (#39996316)

You don't really hear about a significant segment of the population killing themselves.

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