Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 9 months agoThere are multiple possible explanations for that. I don’t see any direct link between the kind of content we millenials consumed in our childhood and the apparent rise in the number of mental health cases. I’d be willing to bet that the time spend consuming said content plays a much bigger factor.
frogfruit@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Glitchington@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When I was younger I wasn’t sad because I was online, I was online because I was sad and felt out of place in reality.
The cough isn’t the cause of the cold, it’s a symptom.
Also, I gained more empathy the older I got. So you probably need a bigger data set than your own experiences.
frogfruit@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Glitchington@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think it’s less the network’s fault, and more on where someone chooses to spend their time on the network. If you’re on Facebook, it is in their interest to piss you off so you stay and fight. But plenty of other tools exist to connect folks online without being manipulative.
It’s like fire, nuclear energy, or most any other tool. Use it right and everyone benefits, use it wrong and people get hurt.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yes but we can’t tell if that’s caused by being online, it’s possible you’d have had the same problems anyway or possibly worse. For all we know the internet helped you deal with your issues and without it you’d have ended up a serial killer.
Life is just very complex.