How Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids’ Mental Health: ‘There’s Massive Evidence of Harm‘

https://lemmy.world/post/13814489

How Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids’ Mental Health: ‘There’s Massive Evidence of Harm‘ - Lemmy.World

There is no science behind the claims in this article (and the book).

A scientists review

Not that this’ll stop people from buying into the false narrative and buying the book.

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

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.

Massive evidence: authors’ feelings.

Science: none

The irony of this comment is just incredible. These are Trump-supporter levels of cope from the scientifically illiterate.

For anyone not brain dead: the scientific evidence that excessive exposure to social media garbage and “doom scrolling” is bad for you and especially bad for children is completely overwhelming. It’s something we’ve known for years. Jonathan Haidt is a douchebag who picks low hanging fruit.

Damn, I wonder how that happened in these intervening years to radicalize young men.

Facebook gets politically involved, and in just 8 short years:

Does this mean we can’t have social media? No, it just means the way we are living, the hellscape of online abuse and concrete jungle we’ve created for the next generation is making us vulnerable to manipulation and misery. This isn’t about social media. It’s about the fact that most of you fuckers haven’t touched grass in years. You’re useless and dumb and easy to manipulate. That’s why our democracy is dying.

False News Has Haunted Brazilian Elections for Years. This Time, It Was Worse.

A misinformation-strewn campaign preceded the election of a mendacious far-right populist.

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My comment was just meant as a joke on the other comment, but I appreciate your contribution. Of course social media is part of a larger problem. That’s obvious to anyone with eyes.
Yeah no hard feelings. It was funny. Or it would have been on a better day.
Tbh it probably wasn’t the best community to make such jokes, especially that early in the comment thread.