Feeling blue? Social media may not be good for you

[Debbie]

"A new study concludes that there is in fact a causal link between the use of social media and negative effects on well-being, primarily depression and loneliness. The study was published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology."


https://www.theweek.co.uk/checked-out/90557/is-social-media-bad-for-your-mental-health

Even facebook alludes to it so it must be true <insert thumbs up icon>


"The bad: In general, when people spend a lot of time passively consuming information — reading but not interacting with people — they report feeling worse afterward. In one experiment, University of Michigan students randomly assigned to read Facebook for 10 minutes were in a worse mood at the end of the day than students assigned to post or talk to friends on Facebook."


https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/

 

[FataMorgana]

That makes total sense, cos pretty much everything on Facebook and the like is ego stroking and utter bullshit. Gimme the GB with its mental cunts any day.

 

[Saint Peter]

That makes total sense, cos pretty much everything on Facebook and the like is ego stroking and utter bullshit. Gimme the GB with its mental cunts any day.

Ha! I might have to tumblr that.

Hmmmmm.

 

[FataMorgana]

Hmmmmm.

Hmm. Yeah. I see your point. But I don't interact with anyone from tumblr except Tathagata. It's really just like my Snow & Dirty Rain thread here, plus pics. I don't talk to folk.

 

[Debbie]

That makes total sense, cos pretty much everything on Facebook and the like is ego stroking and utter bullshit. Gimme the GB with its mental cunts any day.

I prefer to come here and have a gber telling me I am a hick from a backwards country and telling me my pedigree rather than some sycophant liking all my posts and selfies with s and "ur so bootiful, babes" or fb messaging me with cheap words and promises of a kingdom of my own and $700 billion dollars.

On a more serious note I have a friend who is a social worker for at risk adolescents. One of the first things she discusses with the teen and their parents is the limitation or even complete withdrawal from social media for a time to reconnect them with the real world, family, friends and dealing with what is happening with them and not what instafamous people are doing.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Social media like FB, twatter and instacunt are very negative and passive aggressive.
A person feels bad because they aren't having the awesome life fucky mcfuckerson is having but fucky is embellishing and flat out lying while feeling inferior himself because cunty cuntman is doing the same to him.

 

[bellisarius]

I look forward to the collapse of FB, Teitter, etc. and the sooner the better. I have a FB acct. but I don't use it, not even the messaging. The others I never signed up for. I've watched the effect it has on those addicted, and there is no other word that fits, to those "services." I can't say that what I see is positive.

The study you cited Debbie isn't the only one and virtually all of them are reporting negative results. The negative effects point towards the negative aspects inordinately affecting teens and most especially teen girls. I suspect that there are more than a few adults who are hyper-susceptible to the negative effects as well.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

And yet, for those who know how to work the social media avenues, it's enriched them. They have changed and flipped things around, mostly because they give the marginalized an influencing voice and wider access to each other where it wasn't before.

Social media is like a tool. Like most tools, their delivery always depends on what you put into it. Some people can't hack it because they're not made for it. Get in where you fit in. That essential rule hasn't changed.

 

[suurfer]

So in the long term Facebook and Instagram depress, rather than boost morale.
But it also says that for adults, other social media (Reddit, Lit I assume) are generally beneficial.

It makes sense.

 

[suurfer]

"The CNC in America recently revealed the suicide rate in the US has grown nearly 25% since 1999, with Dr Nassir Ghaemi telling CNN part of the blame must lie with the rise of social media."

Maybe for children.
For adults I think that the pros of social media (other than FB) outweigh the cons.
For every person who got depressed or committed suicide after online bullying, there are a lot more who were made to feel better by online interactions.

But such a huge increase in suicide rates since 1999 in the US?
Alarming.

 

[bellisarius]

Studies I'd like to see.

Society in general is becoming coarser and coarser. How much of that, if any, can be attributed to social media?

What is the ratio of positive to negative entries on social media keeping in mind that a positive support for a negative entry is still a negative?

 

[BotanyBoy]

And yet, for those who know how to work the social media avenues, it's enriched them. They have changed and flipped things around, mostly because they give the marginalized an influencing voice and wider access to each other where it wasn't before.

You're close.....it's not because they are marginalized, you can be marginalized all day and nobody will give 2 pumps or rat shit.

It's because they give entrepreneurial voices who provide a product or service wider access to people (markets) where it wasn't before.

Social media is like a tool. Like most tools, their delivery always depends on what you put into it. Some people can't hack it because they're not made for it. Get in where you fit in. That essential rule hasn't changed.

^ 100%

It's an advertisement for yourself, if you can't deal with that or sell yourself? You're gonna have a bad time.

 

[suurfer]

Studies I'd like to see.

Society in general is becoming coarser and coarser.
How much of that, if any, can be attributed to social media?

It is, isn't it?
What compounds it, is that it's also becoming more indifferent.

I think it's a bit of both. It does fill a vacuum created by the atomization of modern society, but it also disseminates extreme attitudes. But in the latter, I think that mass media is much more to blame.

 

[Rightguide]

I look forward to the collapse of FB, Teitter, etc. and the sooner the better. I have a FB acct. but I don't use it, not even the messaging. The others I never signed up for. I've watched the effect it has on those addicted, and there is no other word that fits, to those "services." I can't say that what I see is positive.

The study you cited Debbie isn't the only one and virtually all of them are reporting negative results. The negative effects point towards the negative aspects inordinately affecting teens and most especially teen girls. I suspect that there are more than a few adults who are hyper-susceptible to the negative effects as well.

I cancelled my Twitter account years ago. I still have a Fakebook account but can't remember when I posted last.

50 States and territories have launched investigations into Google and its monopolistic behavior. Investigations into Twitter and Facebook should follow.

 

[Adre]

Some of us know how to use these tools effectively and to our benefit. Others aren’t so bright.

 

[Rightguide]

Some of us know how to use these tools effectively and to our benefit. Others aren’t so bright.

Your love for Big Brother and the surveillance state is well known.

 

[Adre]

Some of us know how to use these tools effectively and to our benefit. Others aren’t so bright.

Your love for Big Brother and the surveillance state is well known.

Speaking of...

 

[Saint Peter]

Hmm. Yeah. I see your point. But I don't interact with anyone from tumblr except Tathagata. It's really just like my Snow & Dirty Rain thread here, plus pics. I don't talk to folk.

You could always just post your naked pics here. Save a few mouse clicks.

 

[Debbie]

Studies I'd like to see.

Society in general is becoming coarser and coarser. How much of that, if any, can be attributed to social media?

What is the ratio of positive to negative entries on social media keeping in mind that a positive support for a negative entry is still a negative?

Coarser as in lack of manners and impatience?

What I find hard to comprehend is the keyboard warrior hate fests on social media.

Telling people they disagree with over what sometimes seems the smallest of things and writing comments like I hope you get beaten up and murdered, you skanky white trash mofo.

Or go kill yourself because you look fugly and don't like the same things I do.

Then seemingly having no understanding why other insta twits etc would pile on and say hateful things back or why it would be upsetting. It's just the internet.

As if you'd have a minor disagreement with your next door neighbour about their overgrown hedge and when they ignore you or are flippant yell - well I hope that you get kidnapped and killed.

Yeah right.

 

[Jada59]

I love Facebook but I do have to skim over a lot of stuff. I use it to spread light and love!

 

[trysail]

That makes total sense, cos pretty much everything on Facebook and the like is ego stroking and utter bullshit. Gimme the GB with its mental cunts any day.

...with the added bonus that one can freely sprinkle "CUNT" all over the place.


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[FataMorgana]

...with the added bonus that one can freely sprinkle "CUNT" all over the place.


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Exactly!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I cancelled my Twitter account years ago.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/98e7ea3c8cdf0cc7ff22e9070ace4275/tenor.gif?itemid=6221772

 

[Debbie]

"A study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests that teenagers who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems including depression, anxiety, aggression, and antisocial behavior."


https://www.technologyreview.com/f/...ssed-after-three-hours-a-day-on-social-media/

 

[suurfer]

Well actually even the GB can go that way.

It's a v. positive experience if you're lucky and at least one-two of the people that you like or are entertained by, are online.

But for me it Can be just as depressive, if none of them are online and I keep refreshing the page endlessly, to see who logged in.

You have to have a lot of discipline - reorganize your online routines along others' - instead of just logging in randomly, when you're bored or in a funk.