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Curios that there have been so many warnings about the severe #mentalhealth consequences of #smartphones and social media for teenagers and children over the last months. These attention-hijacking, social comparison and doom-scrolling devices negatively impact attention-span, concentration, mental health, relationships and so much more. Yet at the same time we pretend that adults are not affected by this? What does it do to a democracy if the electorate is constantly distracted and made angry?


Here‘s a useful and concise thought about keeping #mentalHealth in life, not only in #openSource-projects:

> […] the requirement of having to deal with [stuff] caused the support to maintain [thing] to cross the line into the "burden I can't take on" territory.
> Amount of burden to take on is a personal decision, not something to be decided by others.

#gorhill
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issuecomment-2386374931


CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, suggests that there is "no causal connection" between social media and teen mental health.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254044/mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media-teen-mental-health

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #MentalHealth #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg