59
Study Finds Weak Evidence Linking Social Media Use to Teen Mental Health Problems
(tech.slashdot.org)
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
59 points (83.9% liked)
science
23764 readers
236 users here now
A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.
rule #1: be kind
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Social media isn't bad, just ask early Facebook users or current lemmy users. Corporations definitely turn them to shit marketing services. See same examples.
My anecdotal take has more to do with a deterioration of polite society and the proliferation of easily accessible information, which happens to paint a negative picture. Also, get off my lawn you kids!
Lemmy isn’t social media. It’s a forum.
Forums were just social media before it had a distinct name.
No they weren’t. You don’t follow people on forums. Write a definition of social media that includes forums but excludes news websites, or literally any website with a comment section. I’ll wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Wow that was difficult.
So not forums then.
"Common features" does not imply it must have all on the list to be considered social media.
Here's the other three if you're curious:
Online platforms enable users to create and share content and participate in social networking.[2][3][4]
User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through online interactions.[2][3]
Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][5]
Yep exactly, and if “common features” doesn’t imply that, then that means every website on the Internet meets that definition. Even Amazon you can literally follow users and chat with them. Yes, Amazon, the shopping website.
Yeah, most websites are incorporating social media these days.
No they aren’t. Either you are a social media website or you aren’t. The law doesn’t see it in halvsies. That’s the problem with these definitions. You make it so that forums are grouped with the same platforms that are under investigation for child predation and manipulation elections.
Kiwi Farms and 4chan say hello
Also oddly your criteria for social media doesn't align with the broader public.
Before Facebook etc, forums were really small and plenty. They might be about a certain topic, but you were there for the few loud people that kept it going. Following them, pretty much. Didn't like them, you went to another forum of that topic, same deal there.
It's nothing like the forums today full of new accounts asking one question and moving on.
Lemmy is also not really anything like those forums. The reason why you call Lemmy a forum but Facebook not is more accidental, maybe because of marketing, definitely not because of rigorous definitions.
In any case, @toiletobserver@lemmy.world's observation applies to social media, forums, news sites with a comment section and any other site.
My parents’ generation, and mines have extremely different views on what “politeness” means. For them it means “respect my seniority, which means I should have authority over you,” not “I deserve dignity, so be generous at my circumstances.”
My parents want me to submit to their insubordinations “because that is the polite thing to do.” Not if I can kiss my polycule in front of them because it makes their cis monogamous biases disgust.
Yep, pretty much why we don't respect landowners. Parasite scum.
Your joke detector is broken
…
also our joke indicators differ.
Snowflakes and boomers have the same toxic levels of self assurance in their righteousness, that's why we have a reacctionary wave now, both worse generations in the last 100y are imposing upon others their orthodoxies with no time for empathy or dialogue. The one with the most money is winning, predictably.
e.g. @Warl0k3@lemmy.world
Why in the fuck do I get <3 day old accounts to reply to my nerdy posts, on a nerdy thread‽ And it's not the only one! This one created an account JUST to deOP me.
anyways, verdi, if you are a real frenchie, why do I have to care about boomer’s opinions that aren't helping us compost the money havers?
I am talking about how intent and meaning differ, esp. when jokes need setup and indications through generations.
We just need a 100% inheritance tax. Boomers and younger generations will never let that happen.
bruv, I am anarchist, tax is theft.
Oppression is oppression.
This shit has nothing do to with jokes or generational intents in diction.
You're in the wrong thread m8.
Oh god, now you're tagging me in your unhinged bullshit? This persecution fetish is really getting to be too much.
Just an e.g.. If you want to ignore it, it's fine. Won't tag you again.
"Oh tee-hee, did I harass you? It's not a big deal, I just used you as an example Im just a smol lil bean, feel free to ignore me!"
The reason you keep getting negative reactions to your content is because you're the kind of person comfortable behaving like this in public.
Ah, now you're just projecting. Have a good day then.
Christ, couldn't I at least live rent-free in the head of someone compelling? Did you legitimately just try and "No u" your way out of doing a shitty thing? God, you can't even cope with criticism when you go out and beg for it.
Trying being compassionate for once in your life.
You don't even merit my contempt, but you think you deserve my compassion? Buddy at best all you can hope to get from me is pity and even then that would be me being generous.
Edit: Struck a nerve, huh?