Due to the high rise in young adults and teens getting depression psychologists and health advocates are now looking into the world’s #1 social media site Facebook for being the cause behind our youth ending up with suicidal thoughts and utter sadness.
I began wanting to research this topic after coming across some research from the YPAD (Youth Protection Advocates in Dance) from a professor in Colorado Springs who found a correlation with social media and girls self-esteem. It always seems that self-esteem and depression go hand in hand.
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The questions I had about the topic of Facebook depression include: Is Facebook a tool or the cause of Depression? Does Facebook make people feel lonely? Should people stay off of Facebook? I hope to engage some of these questions as I develop my research about how Facebook is attacking the young adults in our community.
The first source that I have decided to take on is “Feeling Bad on Facebook: Depression disclosures by college students on a Social Networking Site” by Megan A Moreno, Lauren A Jelenchick, Katie G Egan, Elizabeth Cox, Henry Young, Kerry E Gannon, and Tara Becker. The several doctors explore the study of college students in their area and went through and decided what type of statuses would classify a student as having depression. Their conclusion states “Our results suggest that displayed comments that meet criteria as symptoms of depression are disclosed on Facebook by approximately 25% of college students” (Moreno, et al.) I was curious to why there research was only around Facebook being a tool. All of the research they collected is based around how college students went through there day and posted statuses such as “I had a lousy day” or “I’m miserable.” My main question about their initial question and there finding is should there be more monitoring by health officials to find students who need help because they clearly pointed out that many college students are depressed or even maybe there friends or family reading these statuses. In the conclusion they also talked about how they found that the students they did find depressed posted repeated depressed statuses but only if they got some sort of reinforcement from their friends. The only thing that I find on that is yeah we share our hurt when we have a shoulder to cry on whether it be in real life or on social media.
The article was really helpful towards the start of my research because it is the first study around social media websites being a place where people share their depression like symptoms.
Networking Site.” Depression and anxiety 28.6 (2011): 447–455. PMC. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.
Personally I think this is a really good website since it is a primary source, but I'm curios to know. Do you think this source is any way biased?
ReplyDeleteI don't believe the study was biased as I do think they were trying to answer a question a lot of people had about Facebook Depression being a real thing. It may came across as more biased because they did actually find a correlation between the two.
DeleteWhat happened to good old communication? If you want to talk to someone you used to call them and talk to them properly, now you can text or tweet or Facebook them. When you wanted to see someone you'd set up a time and place to meet up you'd go do things and talk and hang out without any distractions, now you can just send a picture to them or call them up on Skype or Face time. I know that I am guilty of these things but I truly think that things would be so much better if people didn't have some of the social media things that we have. Due to social media cyber bullying has become a thing and it makes it easier for people to get away with things they shouldn't be able to. Is social media really a good things?
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