The study found no evidence for boys or girls that heavier social media use or more frequent gaming increased teenagers’ symptoms of anxiety or depression over the following year.
Social media isn’t bad, just ask early Facebook users or current lemmy users. Corporations definitely turn them to shit marketing services. See same examples.
My anecdotal take has more to do with a deterioration of polite society and the proliferation of easily accessible information, which happens to paint a negative picture. Also, get off my lawn you kids!
Lemmy isn’t social media. It’s a forum.
Forums were just social media before it had a distinct name.
No they weren’t. You don’t follow people on forums. Write a definition of social media that includes forums but excludes news websites, or literally any website with a comment section. I’ll wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Wow that was difficult.
Social networks formed by connections between profiles,[2][5] such as followers, groups, and lists
So not forums then.
“Common features” does not imply it must have all on the list to be considered social media.
Here’s the other three if you’re curious:
Online platforms enable users to create and share content and participate in social networking.[2][3][4]
User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through online interactions.[2][3]
Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user’s profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][5]
Yep exactly, and if “common features” doesn’t imply that, then that means every website on the Internet meets that definition. Even Amazon you can literally follow users and chat with them. Yes, Amazon, the shopping website.