From my own personal view I find it very difficult to disagree with every part of your second sentence.
Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoThis doesn’t make sense. Forbidding social media is as stupid as forbidding video games, it’s old people not trying to find the real cause and instead passing measures which will be completely useless. Social media doesn’t necessarily mean Meta
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
So you agree with some part ?
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Yes.
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 days ago
You’re saying that social media is not the real cause of the youth mental health crisis? Do you propose a different cause? Because I know of a good few, very well-qualified people that might explicitly disagree with you…
257m@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
As a 17 year old who only really uses Lemmy, Youtube and IRC I think social media is the least of my problems. I wouldn’t spend so much time online if there was anything else to do. The outside is a suburban wasteland that offers nothing. The most I can do is walk to the library an hour away and read a book there.
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Depends where you’re from
257m@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah I guess. North American suburbs are not built for youth. It sucks here. I wish I was born in the Netherlands or something but where I live I have no way to actually safely leave my subdivision since its divided from the nearest city by the Highway 401.
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
What mental health crisis?
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 days ago
The one you’re too lazy to search?
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
You’re the one bringing a fact, you’re the one supposed to source it. Anyway, your source doesn’t talk about any increase of prevalence, how can we know there’s a crisis from your source? Could be just that we diagnose more cases these times (or even the same digits, since we don’t have evolution data in your source). Even worse: your source literally state Digital media as a means of preventing mental health issues by spreading educative content. Nowhere does your source state that digital media is THE cause of the young mental health “crisis”.