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The studies linking Facebook usage to unhappiness don't restrict their samples to "neurotic techies".

• stickfigure 7y ago
  ...and use deeply suspect methodologies.
• logicchains 7y ago
  They also don't account for the fact that Facebook usage is correlated with screen usage, which is correlated with happiness, so the effect they measured could just be the effect of screen use. "We found that teens who spent more time seeing their friends in person, exercising, playing sports, attending religious services, reading or even doing homework were happier. However, teens who spent more time on the internet, playing computer games, on social media, texting, using video chat or watching TV were less happy. In other words, every activity that didn’t involve a screen was linked to more happiness, and every activity that involved a screen was linked to less happiness. The differences were considerable: Teens who spent more than five hours a day online were twice as likely to be unhappy as those who spent less than an hour a day." - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzn9d3/cell-phones-linked-to-unhappiness https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzn9d3/cell-phones-linked...