An analysis of data from a longitudinal study of child development in Canada showed that girls who spent more hours on the internet at 13 years of age tended to have higher depressive symptoms at age 15. In the same way, girls’ internet usage at age 15 was associated with more depressive symptoms at 17. These associations were absent in boys. The study was published in Psychological Medicine. ...
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
Good point! It makes sense to me now.
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