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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

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506 points imakwana | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.309s | source
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sneak ◴[21 Apr 25 05:28 UTC] No.43748726[source]▶
If people didn’t like the way these apps make them feel, they would stop using them.

Many people prefer having anxiety about drama to being bored.

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1. steveBK123 ◴[21 Apr 25 06:42 UTC] No.43749017[source]▶
There really is something to this. Living in NYC you meet a lot of people from different walks of life and levels of wealth.

Over and over the most stressed out anxious people I meet are the underemployed/nonworking spouse in very wealthy couples. Especially the childless ones.