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Revision as of 17:12, 13 May 2025
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In the largest social experiment ever conducted by humanity, five billion of us have taken up residence in virtual space. This is mankind’s most recent adventure into environments of its own creation and it is maladapted to this environment. -William Davidow
Research Studies
MIT Professor Alexey Makarin on why social media harms youth mental health[1]Social media has a negative effect on youth mental health. We study the staggered introduction of Facebook across U.S. colleges and use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to isolate the causal impact of Facebook vis-a-vis any differences across colleges or nationwide changes. We find a negative causal impact of Facebook’s rollout on the mental health of college students. In particular, the most affected conditions were depression and anxiety disorders. We find that among people who, based on their observable characteristics, were most predisposed to mental health problems, the effect was bigger, and those people were more likely to take up mental health services, such as anti-depression therapy. We also find that students reported experiencing issues with academic performance due to their worsening mental health.
In the Future
Two possibilities:
- We will look back at our addiction to social media the way we look at smoking cigarettes, as something that we never should have started.
- We will adapt our lives to social media which will be controlled for us by our own Intelligent Agent.
References
- ↑ Perer Dizikes, Q&A: Alexey Makarin on why social media harms youth mental health MIT News (2023-08-04) https://news.mit.edu/2023/alexey-makarin-social-media-harms-youth-mental-health-0804
