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It's interesting that two of the six things that the author suggests negatively effect mental health are social media. I think that a better understanding of th
by magicmu 11y ago
It's interesting that two of the six things that the author suggests negatively effect mental health are social media. I think that a better understanding of the impact of habits driven by social media will be a great step forward. Of course, they've hardly been such a pervasive force for very long, so the long-term effects could not be well understood at this point. I see this generally negative sentiment increasingly often, though, and I definitely think there's a lot of truth to it.
- mpdehaan2 11y agoSocial media when it is talking about your startup is particularly hard, trying to constantly manage the perceptions is a ... huge challenge (even if you don't have any internal challenges). Founding a startup is also a good way to work 9 years worth of time in 3 years (or whatever), I sort of view them like the life-extraction machine in the Princess Bride sometimes. You are constantly trying to balance all the forces, mini-max everything, wonder about what you are not doing, and it can always feel like the wheels are falling off the whole time. I need to write a blog post on this myself very soon. Props on talking about it more, and the general theme of having more public conversations on the subject.
- noir_lord 11y agoI find social media a generally negative experience, I have 23 friends on facebook (people I'm actually friends with), my twitter profile is private and I only follow people who have interesting positive things to say and company stuff (product releases and the like). I've reduced reddit usage to once a day and certain sub-reddits. Ironically the most negative community I still use a lot is HN.