Social Media's Role In Peer Pressure 39
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The Fear of Missing Out phenomenon is part of why people tend to get addicted to social networking and then depressed. And if you're a young, impressionable teenager, it could pressure you into making sure you, too, are happily intoxicated the next time someone snaps a group shot. That's the gist of the latest study to find that social media photos of people drinking and smoking can influence teens into partaking in the same degenerate behavior. The University of Southern California study was published online today in the Journal of Adolescent Health."
Afraid I missed this (Score:5, Funny)
I've had these fears for as long as I can remember. Always wondered if this problem had been documented, and was afraid that it already had been announced and I'd missed out on it.
My fear (Score:1)
I've had these fears for as long as I can remember.
On the other hand, I have a real fear of not remembering things that I need to remembered, and I honestly don't know how long I've forgotten I'm not remembering whatever that I need to remember.
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Whether or not you're missing out really depends on what your friends are posting. My friends constantly nag me about getting a Facebook account, and now and again there are conversations I'm slightly left out of where they'll say "See, if you had Facebook you'd know this".
Thing is, those conversations tend to be about incredibly inane things like cat videos and pictures of people at a party. Very rarely are they about something which is actually interesting or which actually matters, and in those situati
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Note: Long babbling ahead, skip to end of message if bored/sane/etc. for something I actually wanted point out...
I've been addicted to social networking for a long time.
I do have facebook account, and I've chosen to associate myself with only certain people, which keeps it actually around as largely interesting for me as slashdot postings - but only for very limited time.
I practically never really "use" facebook, but sometimes I do go there for one of several reasons:
1) To post text, link or images (like wh
Re:Afraid I missed this (Score:5, Insightful)
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...and drunks don't want to go to sleep because they know their friends will write on them with a Sharpie.
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In the social network of IRC we had awaylog which you could configure to capture lines which contain a string or match an expression - by default most clients captured anything with your nick. /away "Gone to sauna, brb" while you were away to be shown for anyone private messaging or querying /whois from you...
It was also a convenient way to set status, ie.
There was nothing that important you could not go to sleep at 3am for at least 3-5 hours when I was a teen ;)
Degenerate Behaviour (Score:1)
"social media photos of people drinking and smoking can influence teens into partaking in the same degenerate behavior"
Hmmm... Where did I hear that same argument?
Oh Yeah! I remember now! Every time any new form of communication has come to existence!
I'm starting to think someone's using 50 year old newspapers as source for their articles.
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The problem isn't the medium, but human psychology.
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Very true. Every generation since language was invented has been adament that the current generation of kids is ill mannered, disrespect their elders in ways "we never did"...and furthermore, this used to be a safer place, because even if crime rates and murder rates are down, the ones that happen today are so much worst.
Duh? (Score:2)
Social media is exactly the same as AFK.
News at, well, never.
Amazing! (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought it was movies, TV shows, rock music, rap music, computer games, friends and family that were at fault for the evil's of society, I'm glad we can blame social media now, people were starting to point the finger at religion for causing these issues and we can't have that happening now...
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And they are teenagers, and whether science wants to admit to it or not, that age bracket, has always and will always rebel against everything they are not told to do. Unless they are complete nerds and geeks, in which case they never really seem to do anything in life that may be worth a little risk. (not to stereo type every geek or nerd to be that way)
I find it interesting you say this... in my experience, it's the geeks and nerds that ended up getting in the most 'trouble' in the long run, since we tend to buck against the rules a little more. All kids buck the rules, but it's the geeks and nerds that are more likely to develop an attitude of "examine the rules and discard those that aren't practically useful or interesting". This often leads to a cavalier attitude, whereby the geek believes him/herself to be better than these "pointless rules" that w
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No one was really blaming religion. That's a dumb argument and you should know better. People seek scapegoats even when something else isn't seeking protection from criticism.
Nothing Groundbreaking Here (Score:2)
The bottom line is this: "the frequency of adolescent SNS use and the number of their closest friends on the same SNSs were not significantly associated with risk behaviors." It has been known since at least Aesop the birds of feather flock together.
Euphemisms (Score:2)
Fear of Missing Out = Bored, Lonely, Horny as a dog in heat.
Addicted to Social Media = Addicted to Porn
Lonely and depressed = Can't get laid on impulse
Sounds like the usual state of affairs. Facebook is fueled by boners and sex drives generated by the Large Hard-on Collider
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Sounds like the usual state of affairs. Facebook is fueled by boners and sex drives generated by the Large Hard-on Collider
No, that's grindr.
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So...anyone between the ages of 13 and 30.
Degenerate? (Score:1)
Degenerate by whose reckoning? Was this study funded by christian science or something?
fear of missing out (Score:1)
The only reason I bother with Facebook at this point (the only "social media" network I actually check) is that I have discovered that I like knowing what my cousins across the country are up to. It's hard to stay connected to family in this day and age on a day to day basis without it.
If it weren't for that, I'd have deleted the thing years ago. I could care less about the group photos and whatnot from the blurb.
And this is news...why? (Score:1)
Degenerate Behavior (Score:1)
Smoking and drinking are degenerate behaviorm. Glad the guy running this study wasn't my dad.
No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia (Score:2)
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was.
Better question (Score:2)
And what is it that pressures people into partaking in judging others choices as "degenerate". Seems like a more important question to answer since its a problem that tends to lead to attempts to control others behaviour, as this sort of behavior often turns violent as the perpetrators find their means of control don't work and they inevitably