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Watching a happy and polite teenage daughter become horrifically depressed and nasty when on social media is a gut punch. Several years of off of it for multip
by treeman79 5y ago
Watching a happy and polite teenage daughter become horrifically depressed and nasty when on social media is a gut punch.
Several years of off of it for multiple months. Very happy.
On it for a couple of months. Depressed and nasty. Every single time. We were always the bad guys for restricting.
She’s moved out and married now. Now talks about how depressed she gets on it.
- goldcd 5y agoYes. It must be social media. Teenagers were previously well known for being bundles of joy. And for thanking their parents for imposing rules. Still, good to know that you were right and she knows this now.
- detaro 5y agofwiw, this comment also isn't really in the spirit of the "open discussion" you miss.
- standardUser 5y agoThe point was not made in a generous way, but it's worth considering that adolescence is famously - and in Western culture universally - viewed as a time of great emotional distress, raging hormones, rapid physical change, rebellion, and so on. And the OP's point was specifically that every generation seems to blame the "new thing" for this exact phenomenon, to the point where it is now obvious that it is not the "new thing" but instead maybe something less ephemeral.
- goldcd 5y agoIt wasn't - and I made it more personal than I'd have liked now I re-read it (but I wrote it, so I'm leaving it up). I like your post.
- goldcd 5y agoAgreed - I was being a dick.
- renewiltord 5y agoWell, effect size is effect size, but this is non generalizable. Still, it looks like you have a clear intervention in the n=1 case which is great!