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34 Kommentare
True. Forty years ago, people didn’t know about a lot of issues around, so they were happier.
Additionally, people like making a mountain out of a molehill.
Look at this war in Iran – we have homeopathic changes in our lives because of that. Nobody is called to the battlefield, nobody is struck by a drone, nobody is forced to work on Saturdays like in WWII.
However, there are a lot of panicked people saying “ahh, this ruins all my aspirations; how can young people live in such a world??!?!”.
I feel like this is overlooking some way more glaring causes for poor mental health in our youth.
I’m not classed as young seeing as I’m not in the under 25 bracket but I’m noticeably less happy when online. I compare my life, my job, my body, to everyone I see. Even the people I work with post nice pictures of their lovely big houses while I’m stuck in a flat. It makes me feel so behind not having what others have. If I didn’t have a clue, I would be much happier. In fact, when I completely came off social media a couple of years ago, I was much happier. I shouldn’t be comparing myself to others when in my 30s but it’s like it’s being rubbed in your face all the time.
To combat this I don’t use my phone on a night at all. I put it in the bedroom or something. I’m constantly on my phone during the day because I have the world’s most boring fucking job and there’s nothing to do. Those 8 hours mindlessly scrolling makes me so depressed but I can’t even bring a book or anything as it “looks bad”, I can be on my phone discreetly.
ah yes, it’s obviously social media causing all the depression
not the failure of the social contract, stagnant wages, lack of jobs, increasing cost of living in every respect and unaffordable housing.
totally social media
Is it social media that’s making them depressed or is it the reality they’re witnessing through it?
I feel like young people are way more depressed at being trapped in minimum wage jobs with debt from a useless university degree, unable to ever afford a home, perpetually single, with no community, and the abolition fo pensions on the horizon before they reach retirement.
Social media is where people talk to each other and notice who’s to blame. Government’s don’t like that part.
Yup, its pretty much changed everything in society in a very short space of time. Attitudes to clothes, socialising , sex, porn…and not for the better. Its turned a generation of young people into mentally deficient, irritating, attention seeking weirdos with weaponised ‚mental health‘ issues who cant make a phone call or order a pint.
I think this happens in phases, social media from 2000-2013 I would say felt like a general positive, from then on its become a negative. Algorithms for echo-chambers and doom-scrolling live images of death and destruction/global social issues and domestic makes us all uneasy. It’s like being in a constant drama-loop with no escape, wonder what scientists years from now will say.
Social media is „dangerous“ because it allows young people to see just how fucked up the society they live in truly is.
Luckily, traditional media aren’t fear mongering doom callers run by the billionaire elites, so that’s fine for mental health.
It’s so many things contributing to terrible mental health. 9/11 happened when I was 7, and since that I became aware of the constant news cycle of horror stories. The world feels bleak and the young feel like they don’t have a place in it because their accounts have the wrong numbers and they can’t do much to change it.
Foreigner-owned social media platforms poison literally everything they touch: politics, culture, relationships, families, teenagers‘ fragile psyches. Not one corner of our society remains untouched by the infestation.
And they do so proudly, openly, without even a hint of conscience.
Why are we tolerating them?
Social media is the embodiment of the saying „comparison is the thief of joy“
Have you considered that it’s because nothing is affordable, the job market is a mess, there are threats against our rights everyday and extremism on both sides is on the rise?
My mental health is much better after not using any social media. Not even reddit
That’s not why. I mean, it doesn’t help, but it’s not as if it’s the only reason, is it?
And not for example the general shitness of everything and the overwhelming likelihood it’s just going to get worse?
Cozy yeah, getting off their phones will help them buy their own homes and bring down the costs of living, wunnit?
I think it’s less social media itself and more just the raised awareness of the world that social media shows
So many people are in denial about the effects of social media on the young because they’re in denial about the effects on themselves.
Nothing to do with extreme corruption in high places, endless fabricated wars, and theft via inflation and unnecessary taxes.
We’re all to blame for it, but we won’t sort ourselves out because there’s too many things going on, and I suspect that’s by design
Nothing to do with living in a society that shows them nothing but contempt? Being subjected to coercive and controlling abuse, being taxed for services that they will never see the benefit of, funding corrupt politicians, monarchy and CEOs that actively conspire to make everyone’s lives worse?
Unlike before they can see how unfair and unequal everything is.
Social media is an amplifier; go in with low mood and it’ll go lower but go in with high mood and it’ll get higher. Rather than going for the easy pearl clutch perhaps they should look at real world issues like the cost of living, lack of decent entry level jobs, lack of housing, impending climate issues and the rise of despots starting wars all over the place. Perhaps it’s hitting the young worst because they are going to suffer the worst and the longest?
defo not the state of the world or hopes for the future, no its defo nothing to do with it
Social media is bad but all attempts by the government to resolve issues with it lead to insane overreactions and the OSA is already a nightmare for the internet without even more poorly thought out attempts by the government to “fix” things
Thanks 🙏
A lot of the data is from surveys so it would be interesting to see the questions
As usual the titles are potentially a little misleading
Ah yes… it’s not the fact that there’s pedophile cannibals in positions of power. Not Israel commiting genocides and dragging the rest of the world to join. Not the never ending immigration. Not the devaluing of males in society. Not the sexualisation and commoditisation of romance. Not cutting them off from socialising during a key point in their life. Not blaming them for everything… but social media, the one outlet they have.
It’s crazy how there is still people that consider social networks as impartial windows into the world. After everything that has come to light about algorithmically driven engagement based on negative emotions and the positive affects that limiting phone use is having in places like Australia and Finland. Go look at PISA test scores, just a coincidence that they started dropping in 2010 right?
It also show such little historical perspective and inversely great self-commiseration, as if wars and economic downturns were only invented in the 21st century
It’s a fair point.
Social media has allowed kids to notice that there have been multiple wars, criminal mismanagement of the economy, an international pandemic, a huge transfer of wealth up to the richest minority etc.
*Everything* being entirely shitted can’t be the reason, it must be that thing other people did.
I genuinely feel bad for them.
Feels like a different world from dinging 16 in the mid/late 90’s, and if you wanted (or needed) to hit the ground running and find a basic/starter job you could pretty do forms at the nearest business park/industrial estate and likely not only get responses but actually land work and be on induction within the week
I went that route, kept in part time study/training, eventually was able to move into better work even with some pretty challenging stuff going on at home (health stuff)
Even as someone into gaming/computers (certainly no tech snob) social media just wasn’t on my radar and I’m grateful for it, you do notice though everyone glued to their phones. I wish the government would actually confront the big tech/SM companies instead of ramming all this surveillance/restrictions down everyones throats (without addressing the core issues)
I don’t fault them being misurable at all I think we’ve let young people down.
We put too much pressure on them and seem to just shit on them all of the time
Normalised unhealthy amounts of screen time is not helping
This is not news, I thought it was common knowledge that social media is bad for everyone’s mental health. (Yes, I get the irony.)
It’s prolonged exposure to bad shit via the phone too. Imagine our parents sitting down to watch telly and then every advert was about the Iranian war or what ever wild shit Trump is up to next. Doom scrolling is essentially an arcade machine that flashes terrible front page news at you every time you put another 10p in the coin slot. No wonder it causes bad mental health. A vicious cycle of bad news, a reminder that you will never own your own home or pay off your student debt and then needing light relief from cat memes to forget. Then repeat.
Wow, some people in here are really keen to whitewash social media as a positive.
Let’s just ignore the fact they can’t afford a future and blame social media.