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Happiness of girls and young women at lowest level since 2009, shows UK poll
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is it? Without a doubt the internet, and it's overuse can be an issue, but I'm not sure it's a great idea to minimise it down to one cause when there's likely significantly more to it than that.
Young people are much more aware of what's going on in the world than they were even 15 years ago when I was a teen. They understand what's coming, they understand climate change and the other issues of the day. Is that an online issue or a societal issues that's spewing into the lives of young people where it didn't before?
Exactly. Growing up I knew about climate change but it seemed like something was being done slowly. I had trust in the adults running the world because they hadn’t given me too glaring of reasons not to. By the time I was 18 (2012) it was clear it was a bit of a shitshow. It wasn’t just that I was getting older, my little sister followed that path quickly. I remember explaining to my parents as a teenager that I wouldn’t be as wealthy as them despite wanting to follow the same career path. Not knowing about this doesn’t make anything better, the only solution is to fix the damn problems.
I think the Internet is playing a large part but it's definitely not the only cause by far
That's the dumbest thing I have read today, good job!
Yeah, the problem is the people being abused on the internet, not the people doing the abusing. They just need to not be on the internet, so they won't get abused! Obviously they should be wearing less revealing clothes too. You're so smart.
In an ideal world it would be great if we could say to people "hey, maybe you shouldn't be a dick to people on the Internet" but that's the same as trying to say "maybe you shouldn't steal from people" instead of buying a burglar alarm.
Yeah we should just give up and accept societal issues instead of trying to address them. All the smarties are out today.
Did I say that? You can never prevent it completely, so you still need to protect people as well as educating people.
Maybe you should read the entire section of the article which details the percentages of those who have reported levels of different types of abuse online, since you seemed to have missed it.
Yeh. I don't think you're quite sure what the word "fact" means
I'm sure you actually know a lot about psychology and aren't an armchair philosopher or anything. Wanna show us some of your papers? It should be easy to get published in a psych journal if it's just astrology, right?
Perhaps it's more to do with changes to the internet over the past 5 or so years? Such as the pervasive rise of algorithmic feeds designed to drive "engagement"?
So it's not astrology when you agree with it?