Ted Underwood 🦋: Twitter use predicts a substantial, immediate (30 minute) decline in reported well-being, and an increase in outrage, polarization, and sense of belonging. Now we need parallel research on other microblogging platforms. I'd be surprised if the effect were vastly different. #CSSky

Twitter use predicts a substantial, immediate (30 minute) decline in reported well-being, and an increase in outrage, polarization, and sense of belonging. Now we need parallel research on other microblogging platforms. I'd be surprised if the effect were vastly different. #CSSky

Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage - Communications Psychologywww.nature.com Data obtained from a 7-day experience sampling method in a sample of US American users of Twitter (now X) shows short term relationships between Twitter use and wellbeing, sense of belonging, and expe...

My current experience with Threads and Bluesky is that they make me feel almost exactly the same as Twitter.

This definitely explains what happened to Will Stancil.

What's wrong with being outraged?

Tell me again what is wrong with being outraged.

I don’t believe that!!!! 😤

This tracks with the Instagram data and it's not good.

🎵“the more you know”🎶

But… but… what about all those unregretted user-minutes?

We need a social media platform where all the content is funny. Bring on the cat videos!

This post makes me angry! Oh.... wait...

Part of this could just be the ability to see news that upsets the selling environment, i.e. real news, vs. "news" from corporate media which doesn't want to scare you away with unpleasant truths

Would be interesting to see similar research as well for the outrage-fueling media platforms like Breitbart, Fox, etc. - saw a piece about substantial downturns in readership as people burn out on anger...

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