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The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Hirom@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you read the sources? They are below the video. If you have, does the video misrepresent what's in the sources?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can find sources to justify any POV - there is no need to misrepresent anything. Something doesn't automatically become right just because there's a research paper on it. In fact, that is one of the tricks big companies use to mislead people and scuttle reforms. Look at the history of the tobacco industry, climate change, lead in gasoline, city planning and zoning, etc. There are countless examples.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

What you say is true, but the internet bubble was also a paper. So if OP thinks that's right and the papers saying it doesn't exist are wrong, then I'd like to know why.

Simply having a "feeling" is as scientific as "god said so".