Posted on 11/18/2018 8:41:50 PM PST by Sub-Driver
For the first time, researchers say Facebook can cause depression
Published: Nov 18, 2018 10:10 a.m. ET
By Brett Arends Columnist
The findings are published in the December Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
Spending too much time on “social media” sites like Facebook is making people more than just miserable. It may also be making them depressed.
A new study conducted by psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania has shown — for the first time — a causal link between time spent on social media and depression and loneliness, the researchers said.
It concluded that those who drastically cut back their use of sites like Facebook, Instagram FB, -3.00% and Snapchat SNAP, -4.84% often saw a marked improvement in their mood and in how they felt about their lives.
“It was striking,” says Melissa Hunt, psychology professor at University of Pennsylvania, who led the study. “What we found over the course of three weeks was that rates of depression and loneliness went down significantly for people who limited their (social media) use.”
Many of those who began the study with moderate clinical depression finished just a few weeks later with very mild symptoms.
Many of those who began the study with moderate clinical depression finished just a few weeks later with very mild symptoms, she says.
The study, “No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression,” was conducted by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, is being published by the peer-reviewed Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
For the study, Hunt and her team studied 143 undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania over a number of weeks. They tested their mood and sense of well-being using seven different established scales.
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I propose warning labels on Facebook and awareness seminars.
Perhaps age limits and IQ tests.
Na, we’re sane...........
“Na, we’re sane...........”
I know I am. It’s the rest of you I’m not too sure about.
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All I wanted was a Pepsi
Next thing you know, someone will claim that Free Republic can cause depression.
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The higher the IQ, the less likely one gets addicted to FB. It's rather like voting democrat. No one much past 100 on the Stanford Binet would vote for HRC, but that is STILL half the population.
Well, it is a colossal waste of time so yeah, it’s depressing to lose all that valuable time on something so worthless.
FR keeps me sane.
Stole his business idea
Stole all the shares from his BEST friend
Secretly sold users’ data
Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".
Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.
Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.
Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.
Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.
De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.
Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."
Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".
Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of, an effort requiring 300 seperate lawsuits against local Hawaiian land claimants.
Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.
Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.
Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.
For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.
Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would follow and monitor users around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.
Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account! After the Cambridge Analytica scandal FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.
In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. The ambitious political move affected 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative.
Permitted the search term "white genocide" to be used as a targeting criterion to aim advertising for products at 170,000 users who interacted with that subject.
When at their SF HQ in 2016 FB employees replaced a mural slogal, "Black Lives Matter" with the words, "All Lives Matter", Zuck retured the slogan to its original and reprimanded the employees as "malicious and disrespectful".
Since removing it from my phone a few months ago I find that I rarely go there. I logged on at my home computer Saturday and wondered why I used it in the past at all. The original reason was to stay in touch with my daughters, but none of them us it now. It was a big nothing.
I’m not so much doing a hard “boycott” but, rather, abandoning it due to disinterest. I guess I just outgrew it.
I have relatives back east that I like to keep in touch with via FB but.......a few of them are what I call ‘share queens’. Every meme, every stupid personality game, etc., they hit share. So it takes me about 60 seconds to scroll through about once a day. But every onc in awhile I hit a personal gem on them so I guess it’s worth the minute per day. Lol
I forget to check, so it’s more like once every two or three weeks. Then it’s just a pile of “crap”.
Also, the feed shifts on you as you view it. One second you are looking at a post and then, suddenly, it’s just gone. It’s not really gone, it’s back there somewhere, just good luck finding it again.
I’m not really motivated to look any more. But if I’m really bored or waiting for something, I might hit it for a second.
It's not a matter of FB causing depression. FB IS depression.
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It absolutely is. Why would it not be?
It was a joke.
A joke.
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