• Renneder@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    • The study found that girls who spend more time online have more severe depressive symptoms.
    • The boys had no such associations.
    • Depression is becoming more common and can lead to learning and relationship difficulties.
    • Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression.
    • Poor mental health during adolescence can lead to academic and relationship problems.
    • The study found a correlation between Internet use and symptoms of depression in girls.
    • The study contributes to the scientific understanding of the relationship between Internet use and depression.
    • However, the researchers did not take into account the details of Internet activity and spoke French.
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      “researchers did not take into account the details of internet activity” seems like a pretty big hole in the study…

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        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.

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          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.

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          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.