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    I social media sono accusati del forte calo della felicità dei giovani

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    1. Helen83FromVillage on

      True. Forty years ago, people didn’t know about a lot of issues around, so they were happier.

      Additionally, people like making a mountain out of a molehill.

      Look at this war in Iran – we have homeopathic changes in our lives because of that. Nobody is called to the battlefield, nobody is struck by a drone, nobody is forced to work on Saturdays like in WWII.

      However, there are a lot of panicked people saying “ahh, this ruins all my aspirations; how can young people live in such a world??!?!”.

    2. PoggleRebecca on

      I feel like this is overlooking some way more glaring causes for poor mental health in our youth.

    3. leclercwitch on

      I’m not classed as young seeing as I’m not in the under 25 bracket but I’m noticeably less happy when online. I compare my life, my job, my body, to everyone I see. Even the people I work with post nice pictures of their lovely big houses while I’m stuck in a flat. It makes me feel so behind not having what others have. If I didn’t have a clue, I would be much happier. In fact, when I completely came off social media a couple of years ago, I was much happier. I shouldn’t be comparing myself to others when in my 30s but it’s like it’s being rubbed in your face all the time.

      To combat this I don’t use my phone on a night at all. I put it in the bedroom or something. I’m constantly on my phone during the day because I have the world’s most boring fucking job and there’s nothing to do. Those 8 hours mindlessly scrolling makes me so depressed but I can’t even bring a book or anything as it “looks bad”, I can be on my phone discreetly.

    4. MrSmokii on

      ah yes, it’s obviously social media causing all the depression

      not the failure of the social contract, stagnant wages, lack of jobs, increasing cost of living in every respect and unaffordable housing.

      totally social media

    5. TurpentineEnjoyer on

      Is it social media that’s making them depressed or is it the reality they’re witnessing through it?

      I feel like young people are way more depressed at being trapped in minimum wage jobs with debt from a useless university degree, unable to ever afford a home, perpetually single, with no community, and the abolition fo pensions on the horizon before they reach retirement.

      Social media is where people talk to each other and notice who’s to blame. Government’s don’t like that part.

    6. Impossible-Book-7275 on

      Yup, its pretty much changed everything in society in a very short space of time. Attitudes to clothes, socialising , sex, porn…and not for the better. Its turned a generation of young people into mentally deficient, irritating, attention seeking weirdos with weaponised ‘mental health’ issues who cant make a phone call or order a pint.

    7. dominod on

      I think this happens in phases, social media from 2000-2013 I would say felt like a general positive, from then on its become a negative. Algorithms for echo-chambers and doom-scrolling live images of death and destruction/global social issues and domestic makes us all uneasy. It’s like being in a constant drama-loop with no escape, wonder what scientists years from now will say.

    8. MintCathexis on

      Social media is “dangerous” because it allows young people to see just how fucked up the society they live in truly is.

    9. Greedy-Tutor3824 on

      Luckily, traditional media aren’t fear mongering doom callers run by the billionaire elites, so that’s fine for mental health.

      It’s so many things contributing to terrible mental health. 9/11 happened when I was 7, and since that I became aware of the constant news cycle of horror stories. The world feels bleak and the young feel like they don’t have a place in it because their accounts have the wrong numbers and they can’t do much to change it. 

    10. JGG5 on

      Foreigner-owned social media platforms poison literally everything they touch: politics, culture, relationships, families, teenagers’ fragile psyches. Not one corner of our society remains untouched by the infestation.

      And they do so proudly, openly, without even a hint of conscience.

      Why are we tolerating them?

    11. buffetite on

      Social media is the embodiment of the saying “comparison is the thief of joy” 

    12. TheFinalPieceOfPie on

      Have you considered that it’s because nothing is affordable, the job market is a mess, there are threats against our rights everyday and extremism on both sides is on the rise?

    13. ItalianCoffeeMorning on

      My mental health is much better after not using any social media. Not even reddit

    14. frappefanatic on

      That’s not why. I mean, it doesn’t help, but it’s not as if it’s the only reason, is it?

    15. Brido-20 on

      And not for example the general shitness of everything and the overwhelming likelihood it’s just going to get worse?

      Cozy yeah, getting off their phones will help them buy their own homes and bring down the costs of living, wunnit?

    16. Dupeskupes on

      I think it’s less social media itself and more just the raised awareness of the world that social media shows

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