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Kind of a shit title. Making a link as the study does, is not the same as causation as the title states.
Is it social media making people unhappy? Or is it youth who suffer the ills of stalled or rescinded educational opportunities, careers stunted, lifestyles inflated away, the property ladder was pulled up, precarity the norm and a dystopian prospect for a career in a world dominated by a rearming and war to deal with the fallout of ecological overshoot and climate change. Then with no job to do, they use social media to kill their days.
Yeah, anything to avoid the truth. This article is avocado toast levels of stupid.
Thing is, people would be happier if they hadn't social media and other distractions to fill their days, simply because they would be fighting for a better live in the streets.
I see where you’re coming from and I actually don’t disagree: the world is shit in many ways and effective communication about it will naturally bum us out, make us anxious, or straight-up depress us.
However, we do have plenty of evidence that surveillance capitalist social media itself is responsible for declines in happiness. We understand the mechanism: the algorithm. The algorithm plays with people’s insecurities to make them anxious and keep them hooked on the apps. This is well understood at least since the late 2010s.
You can check out Netflix’s Social Dilemma, the Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris, or Jaron Lanier. In fact, they are the reason I quit surveillance capitalism and I’m on Lemmy.
Fully agree. But I think dopamine hacking and engagement are tertiary to the very real and tangible crises that are surrounding the majority of people.
"Maybe you wouldn't be so sad about the way we repeatedly bomb children and never get punished for it if you couldn't post about it?" - world leaders (actually)
Ignorance is bliss.