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To be honest, I don't really care about studies, let alone Facebook's own studies. I've seen enough. Life immediately became less depressing after leaving soc
by ravenstine 5y ago
To be honest, I don't really care about studies, let alone Facebook's own studies. I've seen enough.
Life immediately became less depressing after leaving social media for good. Because my family, especially my cousins, use Facebook and Instagram for communication I'm still forced to use them to a minimal extent. When I do use them, I don't see a lot of happy people. In fact I see a lot of signs of mental instability in the profiles that these two sites want me to see and friend/follow. Lots of narcissism.
- zenmaster10665 5y agoSo you prefer to use anecdotes to decide how technology is affecting society, rather than data?
- listless 5y agoI can backup that experience with my own. I can also say my life has even more dramatically improved since I stopped paying attention to the news cycle. But nobody is going to study that.
- ravenstine 5y agoI weigh data with experience, and after enough "here is why X is bad" and "why X isn't bad after all", I heavily weigh my experience over corporate/journalistic poppycock. Guess what? Not all data is good.
- pixl97 5y agoSo anecdotes it is.
- ravenstine 5y agoI hope you don't live life just believing what people tell you and not forming your own opinions. That would be a sad, robotic existence.
- pixl97 5y agoThe thing about opinions is they are at best, shallow, and at worst incorrect.