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View submission: About loneliness and how our interactions are reducing day by day
Smart phones and social media did not start this. *Bowling Alone* was published in 1996. It concluded that TV and car culture were the main causes of loneliness. If anything, social media is an improvement from passive TV watching.
Comment by cryzinger at 26/11/2024 at 19:24 UTC
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Also, "blue zones" have been pretty thoroughly debunked[1], and Jonathan Haidt is a crank lol.
My favorite rebuttal to The Anxious Generation is that there *is* a correlation between teens receiving mental health diagnoses and teens using social media... but also a(n arguably much stronger) correlation between teens receiving mental health diagnoses and teens having more access to mental health professionals thanks to ACA coverage. Almost like you can't get diagnosed with anything unless you can see someone to diagnose you :P
Comment by legrolls at 26/11/2024 at 18:45 UTC
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Social media actually isolates us further by placing us into social bubbles via algorithm. We don't have to interact with people who don't conform to our beliefs anymore.