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Thank god for our daily "social media" is evil propaganda. I hope one day someone looks into who is pushing this and why. It would be very interesting. At this
by yakitori 9y ago
Thank god for our daily "social media" is evil propaganda. I hope one day someone looks into who is pushing this and why. It would be very interesting. At this point, all the outrage and propaganda really comes off as manufactured and fake.
Maybe it's a generational thing. When I was a child, it was south park, simpsons and gangsta rap that was ruining kids mental health. And video games were responsible for school shootings and all of life's ills.
For my parents generation, it was TV, rock and roll and marijuana.
Something always has to be wrong in order for the media to sell advertising to us I guess.
If anything is leading to our collective mental health deterioration, it's the constant media barrage on tv, newspapers and social media telling us that we are depressed. But fear is what sells.
- vpribish 9y agoit's attention-seekers scaring crotchety, envious, gullible, olds just like it always, always, has been.
- root_axis 9y agoYour comment feels like cynical contrarianism. Just because everyone says social media is bad doesn't mean its not. The observed increase in suicide rates among teens is real and this study presents evidence that social media might explain this rise including careful controls for other factors. Is this study the end of the story on social media? Of course not, but it shows that there is some there there.