social media was a mistake https://t.co/YZj1oLmcE6
I think there is a mental health crisis amongst both journalists and artists, and I think that ad driven platform capitalism is largely responsible
Constantly surveying school-age kids about their mental health causes more issues than it solves.
Emergency-room visits for suicide attempts and self-harm have been skyrocketing for Gen Z girls across the Anglosphere in the past decade, including in Australia and New Zealand. But there is no rise in suicide or self-harm attempts in similar high-income countries with other national languages, such as France, Germany, and Italy. As Vox ’s Eric Le
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Teen anxiety and depression are at near-record highs: The latest government survey of high schoolers, conducted in 2023, found that more than half of teen girls said they felt “persistently sad or hopeless.”
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Although Gen Z’s mental health crisis began in the early 2010s, spurred on by growing up in the smartphone era, the pandemic made things even worse—at least in terms of anxiety. That’s
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
Growth was the ultimate goal of the social media era. We pursued more friends, more followers and more likes, on as many platforms as possible. A decade later, we're finding ourselves hyper-connected but emotionally unfulfilled. More hasn't made us happy. Instead, we're sadder, lonelier, and anxiety-ridden.
Co-Matter • Post-Social Media_2020X-co–matter.pdf
Interestingly, there was a striking age effect: 30 per cent of 18- to 25-year-olds had later regretted putting something on a social media site, but only 12 per cent of those aged fifty-five or over did
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Millennials in 2019 were nearly six times as likely to die from a drug overdose, mostly due to opioids. Suicide rates in this age group increased 38%, and fatal liver disease more than doubled