Use of Social Media Makes us Lonely, Depressed and Less Intelligent, According to More New Studies
Social media use not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it, the economists said in a working paper published this month by the economics and finance department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
The investigation drew on a sample of roughly 1,500 students attending 70 Italian high schools during the 2016-17 academic year. Half of the students used Twitter to analyze “The Late Mattia Pascal,” the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction. They posted quotes and their own reflections, commenting on tweets written by their classmates. Teachers weighed in to stimulate the online discussion. The other half relied on traditional classroom teaching methods. Performance was assessed based on a test measuring understanding, comprehension and memorization of the book.
Using Twitter reduced performance on the test by about 25 to 40 percent of a standard deviation from the average result, as the paper explains.
Recently another study conducted by The University of Pennsylvania examined how social media use causes fear of missing out and concluded using less social media would lead to significant decreases in both depression and loneliness. These effects are particularly pronounced for folks who were more depressed when they came into the study. The report concludes spending too much time on social media isn’t just a bad habit; it can have real consequences just like a gambling or substance addiction.
In 2017, Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, h[ttps://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society said he feels “tremendous guilt”] about the company he helped make. “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, before recommending people take a “hard break” from social media.
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