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Extreme Internet Use Linked to Mental Illness in Teens

posted by takyon on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the correlation-vs-causation dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

More than one-third of 15-year-old children in the UK could be classified as 'extreme internet users', or those who are online for more than six hours daily outside of school.

A report from UK think-tank Education Policy Institute (EPI) states that children in the UK have a higher rate of extreme usage (37.8 percent of all UK 15 year olds) than other countries. Only Chile reported more.

The think-tank examined the relation between social media use (including online time) and mental illness:

While twelve percent of children who spend no time on social networking websites on a normal school day have symptoms of mental ill health, that figure rises to 27 percent for those who are on the sites for three or more hours a day.

Here's a hint: if one third of your kids think a certain way, it's a personality trait not a mental illness.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/07/03/uk-teens-are-among-the-most-extreme-internet-users-world-wide/

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 06 2017, @04:21AM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 06 2017, @04:21AM (#535543) Journal

    LED lighting may actually be pretty bad [mercola.com] and their spectrum is for sure fucked up [mercola.com].
    (tip: Use esc with that site..)

    If you chose to ignore these new insights, it can have very serious long-term ramifications. It could lead to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the leading cause of blindness in the United States and elsewhere.

    So while LED and fluorescent are fine to put light in areas you only use intermittently. They might be bad news for any areas used during prolonged periods, like reading books. Heating an object until it emits visible light just like the true original light source have serious benefits.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @04:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @04:57AM (#535560)

    LEDs are digital and incandescents are analog? The importance of finding an infrared sauna that doesn't emit "dangerous non-native EMFs"? Is this some sort of joke?

    You can't seriously expect us to heed such quackery.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:27AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:27AM (#535612) Journal

      I didn't read that report. But the main point is that white-LED and definitely fluorescent lighting has a very fragmented spectrum that looks alright for human eyes. That is probably a bad idea to be exposed to for a long duration as the main light source.