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Teenagers started having extreme and rampant mental health issues as soon as social media became pervasive. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though.
by asylteltine 3y ago
Teenagers started having extreme and rampant mental health issues as soon as social media became pervasive. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though.
- megaman821 3y agoActually, if you look at the data, the debut and rise of Taylor Swift is obviously causing the teenage mental health crisis.
- BorisMelnik 3y agoit was bound to happen with any communication platform teens use on the internet, it was already starting in the early 2000s with text messaging, definitely MySpace
- asylteltine 3y agoMySpace is social media
- stronglikedan 3y agoThe mental health issues correlate with the rise a lot of things besides social media. Certain medications, for one. Correlations aren't causation, of course.
- superkuh 3y agoDo you think the rise in rates of diagnosed autism spectrum disorder over the same time period reflect an increase in actual expression of the phenotype in the population? Or was it from an increase in diagnosis and treatment? Do you think the rise in this premise of "rampant mental health issues" reflect an increase in actual expression of the phenotypes in the population? Or was this from an increase in diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues?