Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness

Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please don’t get your news from Facebook.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, i see your a Lemmy user and therefore you must be a tankie. Go back to ml/grad

    If your sources of news relies on platform then i have bad news for you…

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    • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      FB/Instagram is a for-profit ad-driven platform that relies on fearmongering to keep you addicted to the platform. Keeping yourself addicted to a platform like that and destroying your mental health with it doesn’t help anyone.

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wow thanks, i had no idea

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone who thinks you can avoid hearing about “the horrors” by leaving social media hasn’t tried leaving social media. This stuff is unavoidable. The only little control you have over it is the sheer volume of it that you wish to get firehosed by on a daily basis.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t hear about any of it when I’m offline, but sure.

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• SuiXi3D@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was my first thought. Ignorance is bliss.

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• sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except then it makes you too depressed to do anything and now people are complaining that you’re burdening them with your being depressed

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