Quill Turner
@quintessential-gaming.itch.io
He/him. Dad. Pansexual. Living on unceded Shakori and Catawba lands. GM, hobbyist voice actor, lapsed TTRPG designer. http://beacons.ai/polyamorous_q
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Takeaways:
🔑 We need to talk about social media use more accurately and focus on addiction when it actually applies, rather than when it doesn’t.
🔑 For media and policymakers, don’t casually talk about ‘social media addiction’ as it risks pathologizing everyday behavior unnecessarily.
🔑 We need to talk about social media use more accurately and focus on addiction when it actually applies, rather than when it doesn’t.
🔑 For media and policymakers, don’t casually talk about ‘social media addiction’ as it risks pathologizing everyday behavior unnecessarily.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Takeaways:
🔑 We need to talk about social media use more accurately and focus on addiction when it actually applies, rather than when it doesn’t.
🔑 For media and policymakers, don’t casually talk about ‘social media addiction’ as it risks pathologizing everyday behavior unnecessarily.
🔑 We need to talk about social media use more accurately and focus on addiction when it actually applies, rather than when it doesn’t.
🔑 For media and policymakers, don’t casually talk about ‘social media addiction’ as it risks pathologizing everyday behavior unnecessarily.
Reposted by Quill Turner
Why? One major factor is media coverage, which makes ‘addiction’ the commonly used phrase to describe heavy or highly frequent use. Our media analysis showed that ‘social media addiction’ was used almost 500 times more than the amount that a more neutral phrase, ‘social media habit’, was...
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Why? One major factor is media coverage, which makes ‘addiction’ the commonly used phrase to describe heavy or highly frequent use. Our media analysis showed that ‘social media addiction’ was used almost 500 times more than the amount that a more neutral phrase, ‘social media habit’, was...
Reposted by Quill Turner
Study 1: A sample (N =380) of adult US Instagram users showed that while 18% of users self-describe as addicted to Instagram, only 2% actually meet the ‘at risk’ criteria for clinical addiction.
Similarly, 9% of TikTok users (college student sample) were at risk but 59% self-described as addicts.
Similarly, 9% of TikTok users (college student sample) were at risk but 59% self-described as addicts.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Study 1: A sample (N =380) of adult US Instagram users showed that while 18% of users self-describe as addicted to Instagram, only 2% actually meet the ‘at risk’ criteria for clinical addiction.
Similarly, 9% of TikTok users (college student sample) were at risk but 59% self-described as addicts.
Similarly, 9% of TikTok users (college student sample) were at risk but 59% self-described as addicts.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Ooooo we got smoked fish on the cheese plate?
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November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Oh that's gorgeous
This is objectively correct
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is objectively correct
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November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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4. Just seven discontinued hormone therapy, and the researchers note that of those who stopped HRT, only four did so because their gender identity had shifted. Even then, those four continued to identify as “gender diverse,” not reverting to a cisgender identity.
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
4. Just seven discontinued hormone therapy, and the researchers note that of those who stopped HRT, only four did so because their gender identity had shifted. Even then, those four continued to identify as “gender diverse,” not reverting to a cisgender identity.