Or people who have mental health issues are more likely to frequently post on social media? The implied causation is garbage.
To be fair, the study explicitly states “it is not possible to conclude that posting on social media causes later mental health problems but they are related.”
Yeah, I was less faulting the study and more faulting the headline
this.
Isolated people are more likely to engage online because they have little to no conversations IRL. or people who have mental health issues and mask constantly will be themselves online.
Came here to say this. Glad I was beaten to it.
Ditto. Was even teeing up the “causality” word but they used it too. Nice to see.
Indeed. Junk science like this has consequences
maybe the consequences are the one that cause junk science?
Youre probably onto something. It makes me thing of that stalkedbythefeds women
or people who overthink everything are more likely to engage in conversations online AND have mental health issues
Do you speak from experience?
I’m debating on if I should reply. I have a feeling others are too lol
Well fuck. I have posted an absolute shit-ton of content on Lemmy.
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Well shit good on you OP for following through (unless Voyager is just glitching)
lmfao, for a moment, I thought OP was a bot doing those weird delete account shenanigans again 🤣
Nope, the page is dead on summit as well.
Fuck. Social media in general is bad enough. You’re telling me they’re going to get even more unstable?
You’re literally using social media right now.
+1 redlib user for mental health
Here, have an instance with a fun name https://redlib.zaggy.nl/
