• Question: A lot of people say that some teenagers are depressed because they use too much technology. Is this correct?

    Asked by anon-229159 to Alex on 20 Nov 2019.
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      Alex Spiers answered on 20 Nov 2019: last edited 20 Nov 2019 4:36 pm

      You need to watch this video from my colleague in Oxford: Andrew Przbylski:

      https://twitter.com/i/status/1189920209731121154

      We actually don’t know if teenagers who are ALREADY depressed use technology too much, or vice versa (i.e. teenagers who use technology TOO MUCH are depressed).

      In other words we don’t know yet. This is what my research is trying to solve, and why we are following 16 thousand adolescents in two countries to find out.

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