Girls who spend long hours on the internet are at increased risk of depression, study finds (www.psypost.org)

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[-] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

"researchers did not take into account the details of internet activity" seems like a pretty big hole in the study...

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Probably means they didn't take into account the fact that boys were just blasting people in online games whereas girls drowned themselves in social media? I reckon it's nothing to do with actual gender and more about what those genders spend their time doing online.

[-] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a girl who spent time in MMOs before social media was even a thing...

it was all the casual misogyny. Girls can't go to (online) games for a release, it's misogyny everywhere.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck, good point :/

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

This makes a lot of sense. Video games is interacting with actual people online and I think exposes many more facets of people, than social media where everything someone posts is curated to show only the best parts of themselves.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

As they say, you never truly know someone until you frag them

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's the next thing to measure.

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