Is social media making society more mentally ill?
Are there more mental illness now vs. before Social media was discovered? — TheQuestion
* Fake News and how it is normalizing, paranoia and delusional thinking.
* Division in our Society - promoting prejudice thinking
* Creating a culture of wanting to be right
* How Social Media can distort our cognitive perspective because of algorithms — TheQuestion
I guess that social media CAN make people more mentally ill, but i would guess that just about any form of media or propaganda that came before it is as or almost as capable of causing just as much damage. I'm also guessing that part of the problems is that some people reading stuff on social media don't realize that anything there has as much validity to it as what people write in a bathroom stall.Is social media making society more mentally ill?
Are there more mental illness now vs. before Social media was discovered?
Such examples as....
* Anxiety and Depression
* Fake News and how it is normalizing, paranoia and delusional thinking.
* Division in our Society - promoting prejudice thinking
* Creating a culture of wanting to be right
* How Social Media can distort our cognitive perspective because of algorithms — TheQuestion
Is social media making society more mentally ill? — TheQuestion
I may be wrong but it seems to me that the issue itself may not be with social media itself, but with the way it is used and with the way our society is today. Social Media is merely a tool and like all tools created before it (like books, newspapers, movies, television, etc.), it can help or harm depending on what people want to do with it and whether or not such actions can harm others.
IMHO if the issues with social media is more of a symptom of a problem (ie since social media is a tool used in causing harm not the source itself) not the problem itself the better question to ask, what (or who) is real source of the harm or problems that are caused using social media and can anything be done about it. — dclements
Are there more mental illness now vs. before Social media was discovered? — TheQuestion
Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift, allein die Dosis macht dass ein Ding kein Gift ist.
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison, the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison. — Paracelsus, 1538
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