{"id":7061,"date":"2022-09-18T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/finally-we-have-evidence-that-hell-is-other-people-on-social-media-torsten-bell\/"},"modified":"2022-09-18T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T07:38:37","slug":"finally-we-have-evidence-that-hell-is-other-people-on-social-media-torsten-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/18\/finally-we-have-evidence-that-hell-is-other-people-on-social-media-torsten-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, we have evidence that hell is other people on social media | Torsten Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeing how much fun your peers are having is bad for your mental health, a study of students suggests<\/p>\n

Scrolling Twitter or refreshing Facebook definitely feels like it\u2019s bad for you, as our attention spans rot and meaning is drained from our lives. Despite those strong feelings, we\u2019re usually told the evidence isn\u2019t yet there to prove social media damages our mental health. The evidence of surging mental ill health is strong, with 30% of 18- to 24-year-olds reporting a common mental disorder<\/a> in 2018-19, up from 24% at the start of the millennium, so it\u2019s hard not to worry that this debate echoes the mid-20th-century arguments that we hadn\u2019t absolutely proved cigarettes cause cancer. Despite the strong correlation between smoking and dying, many doctors didn\u2019t believe the link had been proved even by the 1960s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reinforcing my prejudices is new research<\/a> examining the staggered introduction of Facebook across US universities, launching in Harvard in 2004 and then spreading across the country. Using surveys of students, it shows the platform\u2019s arrival saw them being more likely to report poor mental health with increases in depression and anxiety of 7% and 20% respectively. We\u2019re talking about the negative impact of Facebook being around 22% of that of losing a job \u2013 this is big. The authors argue the impact is from increasing social comparisons. Seeing everyone else having a great time isn\u2019t good if you\u2019re not. The research shows that Facebook\u2019s arrival increased students\u2019 perceptions of how much other students were drinking \u2013 a fairly good proxy for how much fun you think others are having at that age \u2013 but had no effect on actual drinking levels.<\/p>\n

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\nSeeing how much fun your peers are having is bad for your mental health, a study of students suggestsScrolling Twitter or refreshing Facebook definitely feels like it\u2019s bad for you, as our attention spans rot and meaning is drained from our lives. Despite those strong feelings, we\u2019re usually told the evidence isn\u2019t yet there to prove social media damages our mental health. The evidence of surging mental ill health is strong, with 30% of 18- to 24-year-olds reporting a common mental disorder in 2018-19, up from 24% at the start of the millennium, so it\u2019s hard not to worry that this debate echoes the mid-20th-century arguments that we hadn\u2019t absolutely proved cigarettes cause cancer. Despite the strong correlation between smoking and dying, many doctors didn\u2019t believe the link had been proved even by the 1960s.
\nReinforcing my prejudices is new research examining the staggered introduction of Facebook across US universities, launching in Harvard in 2004 and then spreading across the country. Using surveys of students, it shows the platform\u2019s arrival saw them being more likely to report poor mental health with increases in depression and anxiety of 7% and 20% respectively. We\u2019re talking about the negative impact of Facebook being around 22% of that of losing a job \u2013 this is big. The authors argue the impact is from increasing social comparisons. Seeing everyone else having a great time isn\u2019t good if you\u2019re not. The research shows that Facebook\u2019s arrival increased students\u2019 perceptions of how much other students were drinking \u2013 a fairly good proxy for how much fun you think others are having at that age \u2013 but had no effect on actual drinking levels. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing how much fun your peers are having is bad for your mental health, a study of students suggests Scrolling Twitter or refreshing Facebook definitely feels like it\u2019s bad for you, as our attention spans rot and meaning is drained from our lives. Despite those strong feelings, we\u2019re usually told the evidence isn\u2019t yet there …<\/p>\n

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