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b'Is social media killing us? If so, how do we fix it?\\n\\nCorrelation is not causation, but still there is a huge correlation between rising depression rates and the ascendancy of social media. For example, teenage depression started going up about the time the smartphone was introduced.\\n\\nNow we are in the midst of an opiate addiction epidemic and a suicide epidemic, as highlighted by recent celebrity suicides. We always talk about how 30,000 people are killed by non-self-driving cars every year in the US. Well suicide is lots worse. Last year, 45,000 Americans killed themselves. Suicide is up 30% for the population as a whole, nearly 50% for some demographics.\\n\\nThe jump in depression and suicide\\xa0 may not ALL be technology-driven,\\xa0 but what if it\\u2019s just MOSTLY technology-driven? What if it\\u2019s just 25% technology driven? Would we put up with anything else doing that kind of damage?\\n\\nHow is it doing it?\\n\\nUnhealthy memes?\\n\\nNarrowing narratives?\\n\\nStatus anxiety?\\n\\nNihilism-inducing pointlessness?\\n\\nPossibles Cures:\\nRelinquishmentPower throughESCAPE!\\xa0We Adapt\\xa0\\nWT 447-761\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nImage from Pixabay.com'