As it is about an hour long video, here is the TLDR:
While those who self-identify as Republicans are somewhat affected by social media use, they tend to stay to the mean once they use social media. Meanwhile, Democrats become exponentially more depressed as they use social media more. This despite starting at roughly the same point before social media use.
Those who identified as Democrats also were significantly more likely to report high anxiety from frequent social media while the difference was negligible in those identifying as Republicans. This was a completely separate study than the main one covered in the video. Ironically, conservatives with frequent social media use were actually mentally more stable than those with some.
In further study, this degradation in mental state tracked with Woke ideology, and there was a strong correlation that the more woke you are the more mentally unwell you were. Importantly though, the study further found that the Woke ideology proceeded the mental health problems (IE: someone would have been perfectly mentally stable, becomes woke, and it destroys their mind).
Many of what are considered the worst aspects of social media actually do not strongly correlate to social media itself, but Leftist ideology. As an example picked out in the video, suicidal ideation did not strongly correlate with social media usage, but did strongly correlate to having a left-wing ideology.
Men and conservatives score better on metrics of psychological resilience and stability, while Leftist and women were more likely to score low on those and more likely to display mental issues (especially neuroticism). Additionally, men and conservatives are more likely to put down the social media and walk away, while women and Leftist are more likely to stay on it for significant periods of time.
The presenters throughout the video say that from their own read of the data as well as personal experience being in the space, they believe the main reasons this happens is because of the difference in the online spaces themselves where the content is the problem rather than social media itself. And that further from that, the feeling of being in these spaces is different ("locker room" vs. "Mean Girls 24/7", as the summery). And furthermore, that the "Urban Monoculture" that the Left pushes is so anti-human and goes against human nature so much that the attempt to push it destroys their minds and makes them into host for the mind virus that must be spread (using the example of that zombie parasite that can infect ants).
Conservatives see all the bullshit on social media and think "I have my family/friends/normal life so this isn't a huge deal unless it affects my world directly somehow.
Leftists who love rocks and the universe more than their own mothers freak out because every goat herder missing one meal in bumfuckistan feels like the end of the world.
The algos are so bad my son who makes accounts for every topic has to make new account very often these days. The algos try to make all the accounts into the same feed.
Yeah, I've noticed this. I make new accounts all the time and have to act differently on them to counter the algothisms. These algothisms are terrible.
I've just given up entirely on any algorithms ever delivering content I actually want. It's either socially engineered bullshit or just completely misunderstands what my interests are, because their whole "tagging" system doesn't even remotely resemble how the human mind actually works.
Improving of my mental health tracked very well with becoming alot more ''conservative''.
Taking some healthy level of pride in your race and culture/language and wanting policies to protect those, of course, is ''far-right'' in today's political climate.
As it is about an hour long video, here is the TLDR:
While those who self-identify as Republicans are somewhat affected by social media use, they tend to stay to the mean once they use social media. Meanwhile, Democrats become exponentially more depressed as they use social media more. This despite starting at roughly the same point before social media use.
Those who identified as Democrats also were significantly more likely to report high anxiety from frequent social media while the difference was negligible in those identifying as Republicans. This was a completely separate study than the main one covered in the video. Ironically, conservatives with frequent social media use were actually mentally more stable than those with some.
In further study, this degradation in mental state tracked with Woke ideology, and there was a strong correlation that the more woke you are the more mentally unwell you were. Importantly though, the study further found that the Woke ideology proceeded the mental health problems (IE: someone would have been perfectly mentally stable, becomes woke, and it destroys their mind).
Many of what are considered the worst aspects of social media actually do not strongly correlate to social media itself, but Leftist ideology. As an example picked out in the video, suicidal ideation did not strongly correlate with social media usage, but did strongly correlate to having a left-wing ideology.
Men and conservatives score better on metrics of psychological resilience and stability, while Leftist and women were more likely to score low on those and more likely to display mental issues (especially neuroticism). Additionally, men and conservatives are more likely to put down the social media and walk away, while women and Leftist are more likely to stay on it for significant periods of time.
The presenters throughout the video say that from their own read of the data as well as personal experience being in the space, they believe the main reasons this happens is because of the difference in the online spaces themselves where the content is the problem rather than social media itself. And that further from that, the feeling of being in these spaces is different ("locker room" vs. "Mean Girls 24/7", as the summery). And furthermore, that the "Urban Monoculture" that the Left pushes is so anti-human and goes against human nature so much that the attempt to push it destroys their minds and makes them into host for the mind virus that must be spread (using the example of that zombie parasite that can infect ants).
Its the Left vs Right heat map thing again.
The algos are so bad my son who makes accounts for every topic has to make new account very often these days. The algos try to make all the accounts into the same feed.
Yeah, I've noticed this. I make new accounts all the time and have to act differently on them to counter the algothisms. These algothisms are terrible.
I've just given up entirely on any algorithms ever delivering content I actually want. It's either socially engineered bullshit or just completely misunderstands what my interests are, because their whole "tagging" system doesn't even remotely resemble how the human mind actually works.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339541044_Mental_illness_and_the_left
Improving of my mental health tracked very well with becoming alot more ''conservative''.
Taking some healthy level of pride in your race and culture/language and wanting policies to protect those, of course, is ''far-right'' in today's political climate.