Girls who spend long hours on the internet are at increased risk of depression, study finds (www.psypost.org)

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[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I would guess it isn't causative though. Not sure how you could possibly test that hypothesis though.

[-] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Disagree. There's good reasons to suspect it's causative. There's a facebook study showing instagram is absolutely toxic for teenage self esteem that was leaked (definitely wasn't meant to go public), and I've seen headlines of several academic studies indicating social media contributes to mental health issues in places like /r/science (I've not read them because not very interested).

Intuitively social media tipping pre-disposed people into depression seems awfully plausible from what I've seen

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620976

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Good point! It makes sense to me now.

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