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  Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation   - Scientific American https://t.co/RBfKjnhzTq

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• 30 Oct 19
  

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  On average, social media use has no more impact on teenagers' well-being than eating potatoes.
  
  Sleep and breakfast matter more. Smoking pot and being bullied matter 2.7x and 4.3x more.
  
  Using it actively and feeling in control predicts higher well-being.

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  On average, social media use has no more impact on teenagers' well-being than eating potatoes.
  
  Sleep and breakfast matter more. Smoking pot and being bullied matter 2.7x and 4.3x more.
  
  Using it actively and feeling in control predicts higher well-being.

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• 29 Oct 19
  

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  The science of social media needs to set higher standards for statistical analysis, avoid preposterous claims and study people for a longer time.

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• 28 Oct 19
  

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  “...in the end the real danger is not smartphones—it’s the level of misinformation that’s being directed at the public and at parents,” https://t.co/Mm3682wCN1 Amy Orben & @ShuhBillSkee helping to debunk myths about smartphone use #isedcoach #AppleEDU

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  “Despite our concerns, we need to pull ourselves together and act like scientists. We have to have adequate evidence.” Social Media Has Not Destroyed A Generation https://t.co/STsDa5VFTw #ScreenTime #DigitalYouth

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  “Despite our concerns, we need to pull ourselves together and act like scientists. We have to have adequate evidence.” Social Media Has Not Destroyed A Generation https://t.co/STsDa5VFTw #ScreenTime #DigitalYouth

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  “...in the end the real danger is not smartphones—it’s the level of misinformation that’s being directed at the public and at parents,” https://t.co/Mm3682wCN1 Amy Orben & @ShuhBillSkee helping to debunk myths about smartphone use #isedcoach #AppleEDU

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  • Heavy use can lead to problems, but many early studies and news headlines have overstated dangers and omitted context.
  • tweaks to the data analysis caused major changes to the study results
  • Using social media is essentially a trade-off,” Hancock says. “You get very small but significant advantages for your well-being that come with very small but statistically significant costs.” The emphasis is on “small”—at least in terms of effect size
  • social media use and found that technology was no more associated with decreased well-being for teenagers than eating potatoes. Wearing glasses was worse
  • Most have relied on self-reported use, a notoriously unreliable measure
  • Social media research is the perfect storm showing us where all the problems are with our scientific methodology
  • To be clear, it is not that social media is never a problem. Heavy use is associated with potentially harmful effects on well-being. But effects from social media appear to depend on the user—age and mental health status are two important factors that make a difference. Also, cause and effect appear to go in both directions
  • Primack points to his own early work, such as studies that looked only at overall social media use, as examples of what will not cut it anymore. “You might be spending two hours a day clicking ‘like’ on pictures of cute puppies, and I might be spending two hours a day having violent clashes about politics and religion and other hot-button issues. Studies like my early one would count [those activities] the same.”
  • They studied nearly 600 adolescents and more than 1,000 young adults over two and six years, respectively, and found that social media use did not predict depressive symptoms but that depressive symptoms predicted more frequent social media use among adolescent girls. “This is a much more nuanced story,
  • how researchers asked questions mattered. Framing questions around “addiction” rather than more neutrally makes a negative finding more likely
  • When you have higher well-being, you use social media less, which suggests that well-being is driving [how much use is made of] social media to some degree
  • Such data sets are valuable but make it easy to turn up statistically significant results that may not be of practical significance
  • positive behaviors such as getting enough sleep and regularly eating breakfast were much more strongly linked to well-being than technology use
  • They worry mainly about how much time their children spend online without giving equal attention to the critical question of what they are doing there
  • amount of use is not the problem
  • in the end the real danger is not smartphones—it’s the level of misinformation that’s being directed at the public and at parents,” Odgers says. “It’s consuming so much of the airtime that it’s causing us to miss potentially some of the real threats and problems around digital spaces
  • social media mindsets predicted users’ well-being. A sense of agency had the strongest effect. “The more you believe you are in control over your social media, the more social support you have, the less depression you report, the less stress, the less social anxiety, regardless of how much you’re actually saying you use social media

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  2/Neuropsychologist @tracyadennis @Hunter_College "points to a longitudinal study [of >1600 teens & young adults which] found that #SM use didn't predict depressive symptoms but that depressive symptoms predicted more freqnt #SM use among adolescen

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• 26 Oct 19
  

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