Over the last few years, it has become accepted knowledge that the internet — mainly social media and, lately, AI tools — was damaging the mental health of kids and increasing the suicide rate amon…
This reduction is all off the back of the peak (of teen anxiety and thoughts of suicide) during Covid returning to more normal levels now that the crisis is over. Celebrating it as a vindication of social media being bad for people is… Disingenuous at best.
The article then goes on to subtly imply that all those feeling shit are probably just LGBTQI (what you see below is an implicit false equivalence).
But the data show that many teenagers, especially girls and teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, are still struggling. Thirty-three percentof high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the last12 months, down from a peak of42percentin2021. Fourteen percentof teenagers reported that they had seriously considered attempting suicide, down from22percentin2021.
The level of depression/anxiety is 33%, it had been on an upward trend from 2012 onwards… Gosh. Remind me when social media got big?
The level in the 1990s hovered around 20%.
And if you look at the source report being discussed, you will see that social media use has declined (page 19) in the most recent figures…
This article is worse than worthless, it’s misinformation.
This reduction is all off the back of the peak (of teen anxiety and thoughts of suicide) during Covid returning to more normal levels now that the crisis is over. Celebrating it as a vindication of social media being bad for people is… Disingenuous at best.
The article then goes on to subtly imply that all those feeling shit are probably just LGBTQI (what you see below is an implicit false equivalence).
But the data show that many teenagers, especially girls and teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, are still struggling. Thirty-three percent of high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the last 12 months, down from a peak of 42 percent in 2021. Fourteen percent of teenagers reported that they had seriously considered attempting suicide, down from 22 percent in 2021.The level of depression/anxiety is 33%, it had been on an upward trend from 2012 onwards… Gosh. Remind me when social media got big?
The level in the 1990s hovered around 20%.
And if you look at the source report being discussed, you will see that social media use has declined (page 19) in the most recent figures…
This article is worse than worthless, it’s misinformation.
maybe like with autism we just detect it more and it isn’t really rising
how much attention was really given to your feelings before 2010