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When we consider how much time young people spend on social media, negative news content may have a bad impact. And those already psychologically vulnerable may be particularly susceptible to the ill effects of a constant stream of negative news. This is because stress responses are often accentuated in those already suffering from symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses.
So, it is encouraging to see some technology companies proactively showing concern about their users' mental health. For example, Twitter is teaming up with the youth mental health organisation ReachOut to provide resources to help young people learn about the possible negative impacts of social media, so they won't be overly consumed by it and know how to cope if they are.
This is a good start – Twitter is making more information available. But it can do more, and Twitter shouldn't be the only one doing it.
Yes, I'm certain this is exactly what is needed. Much better idea than shutting your Twitter app.
Source: The Conversation
(Score: 3, Informative) by GlennC on Friday June 02 2017, @06:55PM (1 child)
It's a basic fact that bad, sad, and depressing things happen all day, every day.
I think that a big part of maturing is realizing this, and accepting that most of the time there's nothing you can do about it. Another big part is developing the ability to selectively ignore those things that are completely outside your control.
Social media is eroding this coping mechanism, and as a result there appears to be a lot more impotent rage in the world, and it's going to make the upcoming downfall much worse, since more and more of our neighbors have become strangers to us.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday June 02 2017, @07:21PM
Oh, I don't know. Seems to me that venting that rage on the internet is what we are actually seeing on twitter.
All the bad news spewing from twitter is the result, not the cause of any real or imagined problems of coping in life.
Somewhere past the mental age of 18, (which an alarming number of people don't reach until well into their 40s) most people come to understand that old adage that winning an argument on the internet is like peeing yourself in a black wool suit: You get that warm and fuzzy feeling, but nobody else notices.
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