Social media is boosting mental health disorders and suicidal thoughts among teens, particularly in girls (theconversation.com)
from dazerl@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 20:59
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Blueoaky@mander.xyz on 03 Feb 22:45 collapse

Kind of sad. Teens have a higher rate of suicide because of the evil algorithms of social media and we as a society do basically nothing about it. I’m readings news about it since years and absolutely nothing changes. Why are we not forbiddening it? How much worse can it get??

rumba@piefed.zip on 03 Feb 23:06 next collapse

Algos have us all doom-scrolling.

When 9-11 happened the Fukushima I couldn’t tear myself away from the footage. Ended up being the same in Reddit with live updates, would have been the same with Tiktok I suppose but I never engaged on that.

I moved Youtube back to clients that only gave me who i follow, moved to lemmy/piefed.

I just want enough news to know what’s happening. I don’t need every gory detail or every opinion piece on it.

I even split on bluesky, wasn’t healthy.

Fediverse is just about as healthy as I can find.

duelistsage@sh.itjust.works on 03 Feb 23:41 collapse

Why would we stop it? Despair is great for conditioning the next generation of slaves workers to accept abuse.