From the BBC:
However, as BBC Future will explore this month in our #LikeMinded season, scientists are also looking at how social media can be used to diagnose depression, which could help people receive treatment earlier. Researchers for Microsoft surveyed 476 people and analysed their Twitter profiles for depressive language, linguistic style, engagement and emotion. From this, they developed a classifier that can accurately predict depression before it causes symptoms in seven out of 10 cases.
Researchers from Harvard and Vermont Universities analysed 166 people’s Instagram photos to create a similar tool last year with the same success rate.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns
How interesting is that? The whole article breaks down as:
- there’s not enough study yet
- more accurate data is coming in
- you can profile depression linguistically from people’s posting (on twitter, but I presume Facebook or debates will do nicely too: on a wee side note, depression is a health issue and under GDPR law it’s a special category of personal data).
- social media seems to act as a depressent
- blue light interrupts natural melatonin (causing sleeping problems)
- social media is addictive (and may need professional treatment!)
- it’s bad for your self-esteem
Obviously, reading the debates forum here is good for my self-esteem. I great pleasure in knowing that I’m superior to most of you...
That’s a joke. Suck it up.
Posting here is not good for the blood pressure. I’m sure that it’s driving many of us insane. Like we’d actually speak to people in the tone we set down on the forum?
Anyhoo. Just thought I’d start a wee debate on something other than trump and brexit.
Is using social media (and posting on the debates forum) bad for you and your health?
@nomorechess saidThe one thing you get from that post and you fail to aknowledge it was a joke (even though I even state so).
Does not depress me and you are not superior to me. Tell him Suzianne
Dear oh dear.
@shavixmir
Posting here does not depress but reading posts does.
My faith in the human race has been irreparably damaged.
@shavixmir saidLike incestuous anal sex is a joke right.
Obviously, reading the debates forum here is good for my self-esteem. I great pleasure in knowing that I’m superior to most of you...
That’s a joke. Suck it up.
An important point though shav, I fully admit I am not superior to yourself, wolfgang, No.1, suzi, kaka notion (or any other of the dozen control freaks that frequent this message board) when it comes to making decisions about your lives, who you should help, how you should care for your health, how you should prepare for your retirement, your terms of employment etc, if only those folk could return the sentiment, but they can't because they do suffer from some superior holier than thou delusion.
@shavixmir saidyou're not better than most.
From the BBC:
However, as BBC Future will explore this month in our #LikeMinded season, scientists are also looking at how social media can be used to diagnose depression, which could help people receive treatment earlier. Researchers for Microsoft surveyed 476 people and analysed their Twitter profiles for depressive language, linguistic style, engagement and emotion. F ...[text shortened]... and brexit.
Is using social media (and posting on the debates forum) bad for you and your health?
you're better than whodey, or eladar, or quackquack and the rest of that club.
that's not something to be proud of.
@nomorechess saidBut your posts sure as hell depress the rest of us.
Does not depress me and you are not superior to me. Tell him Suzianne
This forum is depressing at times. It's a mystery to me why I keep returning to it. Just a bad habit, I suppose. I was nearly shut of this website for a while. I had finished all my open games and not posted in the forums. I was nearly free.
But then my daughter brought home a boyfriend who fancied himself a chess player, a big talker y'know? Not wanting to be caught out by the whipper snapper I thought I'd brush up on the ol' chess skills a bit and got a few games going. Well we never did find time to play a game, my daughter eventually dumped the lad, and here I am wasting time talking to you lot again.
Merry Christmas you hateful losers. Get away from here and go hug your loved ones.
@sleepyguy saidKisses.
This forum is depressing at times. It's a mystery to me why I keep returning to it. Just a bad habit, I suppose. I was nearly shut of this website for a while. I had finished all my open games and not posted in the forums. I was nearly free.
But then my daughter brought home a boyfriend who fancied himself a chess player, a big talker y'know? Not wanting to be caught ou ...[text shortened]... you lot again.
Merry Christmas you hateful losers. Get away from here and go hug your loved ones.
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@wolfgang59 saidThat just means that you were naive and in denial before you came here.
@shavixmir
Posting here does not depress but reading posts does.
My faith in the human race has been irreparably damaged.
50% of humanity is moronic, and 90% of the USA is. Such is life, and always has been.
@shallow-blue saidYes, but there is only a 20% chance of that.
That just means that you were naive and in denial before you came here.
50% of humanity is moronic, and 90% of the USA is. Such is life, and always has been.