I wonder if this source of mental health decline i.e. anxiety and depression:
The researchers posit that social comparison with peers is behind those results
means that social media such as reddit (ugh) or lemmy have less negative effect or a different one? I don’t think I have problem with social comparison by browsing lemmy but I do feel like I still spend more time than necessary. Some kind of FOMO I guess.
Majority of reddit content is rage-bait. Most of the popular subs are literally based around it like “idiotsdoingX, mildly infuriating, total piece of shit, etc. but it’s also baked into to all of the news and politics subs, even the gaming subs love to fume about the state of gaming and nitpick every new game.
Thanks for reminding me. I used RES and curated my reddit page to only subreddits I personally followed; I forgot that many redditors have different experience than mine. Most of subreddits in r/popular (or is it r/all?) are just user engagement machine. I agree that’s probably not great for mental health in a long term.
I wonder if this source of mental health decline i.e. anxiety and depression:
means that social media such as reddit (ugh) or lemmy have less negative effect or a different one? I don’t think I have problem with social comparison by browsing lemmy but I do feel like I still spend more time than necessary. Some kind of FOMO I guess.
Majority of reddit content is rage-bait. Most of the popular subs are literally based around it like “idiotsdoingX, mildly infuriating, total piece of shit, etc. but it’s also baked into to all of the news and politics subs, even the gaming subs love to fume about the state of gaming and nitpick every new game.
No way in hell that that is healthy for you.
Thanks for reminding me. I used RES and curated my reddit page to only subreddits I personally followed; I forgot that many redditors have different experience than mine. Most of subreddits in r/popular (or is it r/all?) are just user engagement machine. I agree that’s probably not great for mental health in a long term.