Comment on Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development?
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoHave you read studies about how social media may be related to unprecedented mental illness in kids?
I’d like to see those studies.
neptune@dmv.social 7 months ago
If I post some links you will probably decide that they aren’t satisfactory. You could just look into it yourself, or perhaps provide the reason you don’t like those studies generally.
There is lots of research looking at mental health affects of social media.
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
“no, I won’t provide a source for my claim, because my source is not good/non-existent”
FTFY
They didn’t say they don’t “like” the studies though, in fact they actively said they were interested in seeing them. What’s the point of asking someone to explain why they don’t like something that they haven’t even seen yet. Sure they could go find some random related studies and then critique those but that seems pretty pointless.
neptune@dmv.social 7 months ago
Yes I’m being a little lazy, but I’m not a research scientist. Gooogling some thing like “mental illness social media” is pretty easy. There’s lots of studies finding at least a little corelation.
I’m not shocked your linked study says that there is very little evidence of social media causing mental health issues. I wouldn’t even be shocked if it’s true.
It still doesn’t mean that good parenting and social media access go hand in hand.
Just trying to have a conversation and not get a PhD in the process.
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I am interested in the methodologies. I would like to see what studies use for a baseline in comparisons, whether they are comparing data collected today to data collected in the past, who is making the determination about whether a child has a mental illness or not, what role parents play in these sorts of studies, what sort of mental illnesses the studies look for or find, and the magnitude of the impact found by the studies.
I would also like to see exactly what you referred to as “unprecedented mental illness in kids.”