Using Multiple Social Networks May Lead To Depression and Anxiety, Says Study (dailydot.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Daily Dot: The more social media you use, the higher the likelihood that you'll be anxious or depressed. At least according to the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health. In a study published online this month with more than 1,700 millennial adults, it found people who report using seven to 11 social media platforms had more than three times the risk of depression or anxiety than millennials who use zero to two platforms. The participants were asked about the most popular social media platforms in 2014, the year the study was conducted, which included Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine, and LinkedIn. Those who used more than seven platforms showed higher levels of depressive symptoms, even when researchers controlled for factors like race, gender, relationship status, household income, education, and total time spent on social media. Brian A. Primack, lead author of the study, notes that the correlation is not certain. He told PsyPost: "It may be that people who suffer from symptoms of depression or anxiety, or both, tend to subsequently use a broader range of social media outlets. For example, they may be searching out multiple avenues for a setting that feels comfortable and accepting. However, it could also be that trying to maintain a presence on multiple platforms may actually lead to depression and anxiety. More research will be needed to tease that apart."

Comments

Maybe this explains special snowflakes...

[Chas]

You know. "It's all me! Me me me!"

Yet, when all those social networks either ignore them, or unilaterally label them as the byproduct of an unsatisfactory immediate post-insertion premature ejaculation?

It hurts its widdle feewings!

Re:Maybe this explains special snowflakes...

[Anonymous Coward]

I do this because there are entire websites filled with SJWs mouthing lies from the MSM that I need to correct by posting links to documented facts from real news organizations!

Re:causality

[Anonymous Coward]

A few years ago, I decided to go on Facebook and look up people I went to high school with.

All the hot girls are now old, fat, grandmothers.

It certainly depressed the fuck out of me.

Re:My social network is txt

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Then I go to bed so I could wake up at 5:30 am and walk to school. Five miles away through the snow, uphill each way.

You had it easy. We had to crawl 10 miles each way through the snow over broken glass on our knees, dodging mortar rounds and horny priests.