What mental health crisis?
Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoYou’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…
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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”.
257m@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Depends where you’re from
257m@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.