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> Spending time on social networks doesn't cause unhapiness > And the more you time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life These two statements d
by wutbrodo 12y ago
> Spending time on social networks doesn't cause unhapiness
> And the more you time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life
These two statements directly contradict each other. If something gives you a brief jolt of happiness and "the more time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life", it's only superficially true that it gives you happiness, and it's much much more correct to say that it causes unhappiness.
I'm literally only using the propositions from your own comment here.
- marcosdumay 12y agoThey don't contradict each other. It's "correlation does not imply causation" framed differently.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoActually, it's the "it's the feedback loop that increases unhappiness" phrased differently.
- wutbrodo 12y agoI think you're misreading his comment. His latter proposition pretty clearly implies causation: "The more time you spend on it, the worse you feel [if you're already unhappy]". It certainly limits the domain, but that's about as clear about causation as one can be when speaking colloquially.
- xux 12y agoBecause you're taking it out of context
- wutbrodo 12y agoOr perhaps you're just misunderstanding my complaint. The comment taken as a whole ("in context", if you prefer) proposes that social networks provide a brief jolt of happiness in the short-term, but its net result is making unhappy people feel more unhappy in the long-term. Under those assumptions[1], only the most committed pedant would claim that it's incorrect to say that "social networks don't cause unhappiness" is true. [1] This is the reason I clarified that I was limiting myself to your comment, because the question of whether your assumptions are true is another one entirely.