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Texting and Facebook lead to sex, drugs and rock-n-roll
TOO MUCH texting and spending time on Facebook is leading kids into a life of sex, drugs, drinking and mental health problems.
A study released at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting tested students on their texting and social networking habits and also tested for risky behaviour.
Apparently the heavy texters and networkers were much more likely to have higher rates of substance use and thoughts about suicide. They were also fatter and more stressed out than those who reported more moderate use or abstained completely.
It is fairly clear that the researchers had the idea that Facebook would turn out to be the root of all sin. According to the report they had a theory that mobile texting and social notworking websites like Facebook and Twitter were growing in popularity, therefore all the problems that exist in modern society must be blamed on these things.
They surveyed 4,257 students in an urban Midwestern US school district about how often they texted and how much they used social networking sites on school days, and also had them take the Youth Risk Behaviour Survey.
More than 19.8 per cent of teens reported "hypertexting", or sending more than 120 messages a day, while 11.5 per cent of teens were "hypernetworking", spending more than three hours a day on their preferred social network sites.
This is where the faulty logic came in. The report's authors found that the hypertexters and hypernetworkers were more likely to be minority students, female, and come from a lower socioeconomic status. So rather than allow that these factors might be the cause of the kids' ills, they decided the fact that they were hypertexters or hypernetworkers must be the problem.
This means that hypertexters and hypernetworkers also tended to engage in much more at-risk behavior. By this they mean higher levels of sexual activity with more sex partners, smoking, and drinking. They also were more likely to be obese and display a tendency toward eating disorders.
So if you are a fat, poor girl from a minority, with little or no opportunity in life, chances are that it is the texting and using Facebook that is making you miserable and giving you such low self-esteem that you will shag anything that comes along.
You are probably glad that is all cleared up. But we suspect that if you stop texting or going on Facebook you will still be the same. µ
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A clear misunderstanding of causation. I thought they teach the fact that correlation does not imply causation in Stats 101? Poor study.
A study of 4,257 students can't really be called representative of the western world can it. And from the MIDWEST for crying out loud. 60% of then are going to be FAT and 40% illiterate anyway. Calling the 4,257 student heavy texters is a very apt description.
Look at it this way, it's a good job these people spend all that time twiddling their fat little fingers on iWhatever because they are so fat and ugly no one would want to meet them in real life. So the more they lock themselves away texting, networking, masturbating and sniffing glue, the better for the rest of us.
You'll get a more representational study of world texting and Facebook from 3000 yurts in outer Mongolia.
cZuckerberg admitted that Facebook is overwhelmed with "controvesial content" which is often well-disguised.
http://bworldonline.com/bwtst/index.php?news=Facebook+uncensored+content
ooh..
... but adolescent sex, drugs, drinking and mental health problems simply *didnt exist* before Facebook and its ilk came along.
So its only natural for God-fearing people to put two and two together, n'est-ce pas?
"Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll lead to texting and Facebook" should have been the actual title for this article.
Facebook blocks sharing of this article due to unspecified violation of site usage rules. Nice! :)