Once again, the media taking a study and pushing a narrative with it.
From age 12 to 14 and 14–16 years, the interaction term between social media use and the intercept (i.e., overall level) of social anxiety was negative and significant, indicating that increased social media use forecasted a small decline in social skills among those with higher levels of social anxiety symptoms
So, there’s no overall relationship, except a negative one once you factor in an interaction term.
Theres also nothing here that says people who spend more time on social media are more mentally “healthy.” Just that they have more friends. Or do they use social media more because they have more friends? This isn’t some slam dunk for social media.
Also I didn’t see mentioned what apps. While some apps like WhatsApp and Signal(although no teen is using it) do increase in person meetings they are not the apps that people refer to when they cause social media of causing depression, anxiety, etc. These apps are YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, tik tok redit. Can’t really speak for myself as I’m an introvert and never really used anything other than YouTube but I do regret getting a smartphone .
Even among the apps you list as higher risk, I’d imagine there are differences
I chose them since they offer user posts
Agreed. I use WhatsApp to coordinate a work / study group and the only notifications I receive are related to events hold in person or by zoom / meet. Nothing much past that. I had to go through loops to get rid of reddit and YouTube.
Idk how much I can trust anything being posted by Reason tbh - it’s not exactly what I would call a respectable publication.
I am not giving reason.com, those lolitarian pro student loan shitstains a click
Well, there’s a whole string of words I’ve never seen next to each other.
Nature is healing.
Or, maybe it was never quite so bad as we all believed? There is no doubt that the internet and social media impacted all of our lives and routines drastically, but I think some of the impacts of social media are exaggerated by layfolk just reacting to how they feel about it. There are tons of great studies showing its impact to the mental state of children and we have to work on that, but I don’t think it has entirely uprooted the childhood experience. Just my two cents.
SUVs have done more to displace in person hangouts among kids than phones
My kids live within easy walking distance of most of their friends, but they don’t hang out nearly as much as they want to because there’s a stroad between them.
Urbanism isn’t just for hippies and LycraBros, it’s also for anyone too young to drive a car
Or too poor.
Stroads are the hp printers of the infrastructure world.
The age of consent in Norway is 16, so idk if you can apply the study to the US
what…what the fuck does that have to do with anything? Are you saying teens who can legally fuck adults hang out out of the house more?
If a whole nation has lowered the age, then of course people using social media are going to be using it for that reason.
I’m saying you can’t compare cause the reasons a 16yo in Norway uses social media is going to be different than the way they use it in the US
My man they are fuckin no matter what and using social media for that.
There’s a lot to unpack in your comment, but I’ll just leave this here with 100% not creepy intentions:
Not all states are 18. Some are 16. Your comparison is irrelevant.
Not even “some,” it’s like half
You keyboard warriors loooooove reading into things and pulling context out of your ass.
Me: x=y
You people: x=
No, everyone is replying pretty reasonably to your stupid, stupid comment.
Dude just really wanted to talk about 16 year old’s doin the do.
lol. This is… Chad? Am I doing it right?
That has nothing to do with it. Most of the world has 16 as the age of consent, as do most US states.
The idea that in the US 18 is the age of consent comes from California-based film and television, the age of consent there is 18.
The age of consent varies across the US. I remember in NJ the age of consent was 16 with a 4 year Romeo and Juliet clause.
Age of consent in the USA:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States
Not that I understand why it’s relevant to this discussion, but like half of states have it at 16.
If its on Wikipedia, it must be true!
Yes, 99.9+% of the time stuff on Wikipedia is correct.
This info, for example, is accurate.
Are you claiming it isn’t…?
99.9? Are you that gullible?
Are you that ignorant?
You can look at their sources if you’d like. It’s all true.
Pictured: Teenagers
