I know that we’ve already pointed to a whole bunch of studies, using a variety of different methods that all show no evidence of any link at all between social media and teen depression, but it’s t…
  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Okay then what’s causing it? especially the rising suicide rates among girls and young women.

    They massively started increasing around 2014, exactly around the time when Instagram’s userbase started skyrocketing.

    Also around the time when gender dysphoria started skyrocketing.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It may be news and politics in general are causing grief and anxiety which is being magnified by social media, but not extra compared to rumors/local social pressure. Social media on young users may not affect growing older in a household that’s hostile to the person we are becoming - however how it charges the parents is another issue.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It makes sense that teens wouldn’t find a lot of pressure to harm themselves on social media. It’s an escape for the users to find their own people and groups who accept them. But the question of “What is a primary driving force for suicide among teens?”

    Now study how social media warps the expectations of parents.