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Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens (reason.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Once again, the media taking a study and pushing a narrative with it.

From age 12 to 14 and 14–16 years, the interaction term between social media use and the intercept (i.e., overall level) of social anxiety was negative and significant, indicating that increased social media use forecasted a small decline in social skills among those with higher levels of social anxiety symptoms

So, there’s no overall relationship, except a negative one once you factor in an interaction term.

Theres also nothing here that says people who spend more time on social media are more mentally “healthy.” Just that they have more friends. Or do they use social media more because they have more friends? This isn’t some slam dunk for social media.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Also I didn't see mentioned what apps. While some apps like WhatsApp and Signal(although no teen is using it) do increase in person meetings they are not the apps that people refer to when they cause social media of causing depression, anxiety, etc. These apps are YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, tik tok redit. Can't really speak for myself as I'm an introvert and never really used anything other than YouTube but I do regret getting a smartphone .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even among the apps you list as higher risk, I’d imagine there are differences

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I chose them since they offer user posts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Agreed. I use WhatsApp to coordinate a work / study group and the only notifications I receive are related to events hold in person or by zoom / meet. Nothing much past that. I had to go through loops to get rid of reddit and YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Idk how much I can trust anything being posted by Reason tbh - it's not exactly what I would call a respectable publication.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am not giving reason.com, those lolitarian pro student loan shitstains a click

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Well, there's a whole string of words I've never seen next to each other.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nature is healing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or, maybe it was never quite so bad as we all believed? There is no doubt that the internet and social media impacted all of our lives and routines drastically, but I think some of the impacts of social media are exaggerated by layfolk just reacting to how they feel about it. There are tons of great studies showing its impact to the mental state of children and we have to work on that, but I don't think it has entirely uprooted the childhood experience. Just my two cents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

SUVs have done more to displace in person hangouts among kids than phones

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My kids live within easy walking distance of most of their friends, but they don't hang out nearly as much as they want to because there's a stroad between them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Urbanism isn't just for hippies and LycraBros, it's also for anyone too young to drive a car

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or too poor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Stroads are the hp printers of the infrastructure world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Pictured: Teenagers