I know that we’ve already pointed to a whole bunch of studies, using a variety of different methods that all show no evidence of any link at all between social media and teen depression, but it’s t…
It may be news and politics in general are causing grief and anxiety which is being magnified by social media, but not extra compared to rumors/local social pressure. Social media on young users may not affect growing older in a household that’s hostile to the person we are becoming - however how it charges the parents is another issue.
Okay then what’s causing it? especially the rising suicide rates among girls and young women.
They massively started increasing around 2014, exactly around the time when Instagram’s userbase started skyrocketing.
Also around the time when gender dysphoria started skyrocketing.
It may be news and politics in general are causing grief and anxiety which is being magnified by social media, but not extra compared to rumors/local social pressure. Social media on young users may not affect growing older in a household that’s hostile to the person we are becoming - however how it charges the parents is another issue.