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    Der Glaube an das Internet schwindet bei jungen Briten – Umfrage zeigt, dass 18- bis 34-Jährige das Leben im Internet zunehmend als schädlich für die Gesellschaft und ihre geistige Gesundheit ansehen


    Der Glaube an das Internet schwindet bei jungen Briten – Umfrage zeigt, dass 18- bis 34-Jährige das Leben im Internet zunehmend als schädlich für die Gesellschaft und ihre geistige Gesundheit ansehen

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/internet_bad_for_society/

    Von ByGollie

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    2. krazydude22 on

      And age verification isn’t helping.. Massive data breach/privacy leak just around the corner..

    3. IshTheFace on

      Depends what you do with it. Nobody is forcing you to use instaface or X-tok or whatever.

    8. La_Tormenta_Perfecta on

      yeah, shocker, the internet was fun when it was just kids and young adults creating communities around hobbies and interests

      social media was okay at first but soon descended the internet into a cesspit

      and now the advertisers, politicians etc have pretty much ruined the whole thing.

    10. j0kerclash on

      I definitely think that the spread of disinformation has really neutered the benefits of the internet, since now that global access to information is tainted by incorrect information intentionally at higher and higher levels, to the point that even the US Gov provably removed scientific studies that contradicted a particular narrative.

      Without regulation of disinformation as well as predatory algorithms that farm engagement solely to the detriment of public unity, the internet is a tool best suited to sow chaos than bridge the gap for information and education.

    11. Dependent-Entrance10 on

      The world is healing. On a similar note more and more people are moving away from streaming to books and board games. Because surprise surprise corporations ruin everything.

    13. battleduck84 on

      Nazi maggots are infesting every corner of every platform and fuck all is being done about them. AI, massive misinformation bot campaigns and lying media outlets are making sure we can’t trust *anything* anymore. Staying up to date on current events just means finding out how many „once in a lifetime“ tragedies and massacres happened this week and why we should blame immigrants for what robber barons are doing

      Of course this shit isn’t good for our mental health. Any bit of good news is a tiny, temporary oasis in a continent sized desert of bullshit

    14. GrenadineDreaming on

      I hear this, mostly from young guys who receive the messaging by spending ungodly amounts of time, online, consuming Manosphere nonsense.

      I’ve just never seen any young person, any person I know personally, for that matter, work to lessen their digital intake. Young or old.

    17. Quizzical_Sceptic on

      It is also practically useless, full of AI slop, search results that are manipulated or filtered, or full of ads or to sell something. The enshitification is at full speed, and everything is virtually useless and getting worse.

    18. Dissidant on

      They seem to want to do anything BUT actually deal with the social media companies
      Censorship being rammed down our throats isn’t fixing bugger all its more a convenient biproduct of governments (not just ours) inaction

    21. Ok-Lifeguard9446 on

      I’d like to think one of the positives of AI will be that scrolling mindlessly on your phone will be a thing of the past.

      Your first point of call for accessing information online would be speaking to AI – only if required would it ping a webpage or something to your browser.

      I do this a lot now, i ask Gemini for information. If I need to check something further I’ll go online.

    22. every-day_throw-away on

      I can’t agree more. It was good in the beginning. A new information age built on sharing. Now it’s a cess pool of misinformation full of bots trying to radicalize everyone.

    24. Pleasant-Motor9989 on

      I don’t understand this. The internet was probably one of the best inventions of mankind ever. It’s absolutely wonderful. Social media too. Bad use doesn’t make the whole thing bad. Only thanks to the internet we have almost all of the world’s information immediately available effortlessly. The benefits totally outweigh any disadvantages caused by bad use. It was probably one of the best things to happen to us all.

    26. MealieAI on

      Survey they will reference when they attempt to rollout „age verification“ to all parts of the internet.

      You have been warned.

    27. Amaruk-Corvus on

      Internet IS good! Some of the media platforms on the Internet however not so much, learn the difference.

    28. NocturneFogg on

      The problem is that the most intelligent part of the population is likely to be the most sceptical of misinformation on the internet and justifiably wary of sharing personal information. Unfortunately, a very large % of the population seems to fully accept anything displayed on the screen if it’s presented by an influencer, and they tend to be the same people who go off and fall for every scam imaginable and regularly give their credit card information to that nice robot lady who rang from the bureau of credit card verification looking to check that their credit card was still working.

    29. yksvaan on

      The worst thing is increasingly many people seem to to think they need to react to everything they see on their screens. Internet has always been a place where 99% of content is shit and simply worth ignoring. If you don’t enjoy something don’t do it.

      End the mindless doomscrolling and making every problem on the globe affect your own life. Focus on your own community, local area and things that are actually relevant. 

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