The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
www.nature.com
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I daresay if young people could afford a home, a car, a family, and had some disposable income, free time, and any fucking prospect of a satisfactory life then they’d be a lot less depressed.

    I don’t think social media is particularly good but it’s far from the worst problem facing young people today. The “phone bad” crap is just a lazy cop out.

    • Alex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      While you have a point you might consider what little free time young people have is largely spent on social media full of dark patterns and negative feedback loops and/or gaming stuffed with gambling. One does not detract from the other problems you outline. “Phone bad” holds true as long as these big corporations insist on regulating themselves when all they do is feed people propaganda to keep anything from changing.