Depressed People Surf the Web Differently 278
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Medical Daily:
"Researchers led by Sriram Chellappan from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, collected internet usage data from 216 college students enrolled at the university. The usage data was collected anonymously without interfering with the student’s normal internet usage for a month. The students were tested to see if they had symptoms of depression and analyzed internet usage based on the results. Depressed students tended to use the internet in much different ways than their non-depressed classmates. Depressed students used file-sharing programs, like torrents or online sharing sites, more than non-depressed students (PDF). Depressed students also chatted more and sent more emails out. Online video viewing and game playing were also more popular for depressed students."
Entitlement, ego-centrism. sloth (Score:2, Interesting)
I wonder if depression is correlated with an entitlement mentality and ego-centrism. It is definitely correlated with a lack of exercise.
advertising? (Score:5, Interesting)
it's an advertiser's job to make you unhappy. if you are content with what you have, and only wish to buy things you need, a lot of worthless junk would never get sold. think about how your (imaginary?) girlfriend/wife goes shopping to make herself feel better. materialism is condemned by just about every religion that preaches happiness through the "denial of the crystalline" -- to quote a Meshuggah song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IiP-Vdx_F8). advertisers want to create depression in you because it's proven to drive sales. you spend to fill the void, and the void is created by attachment to status and the expensive crap required to get it. all of this was true for tv, and now it's our interactive tv, the internet.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/consumerism-and-its-antisocial-effects-can-be-turned-onor-off.html [psychologicalscience.org]
Re:So WTF do the non-depressed do with the interne (Score:4, Interesting)
Researchers believe this haphazard use of the internet is a result of students having difficulty concentrating, which is a common trait associated with depression.
Non-depressed people use those things too, but they tend to complete one task before moving on to the next rather than randomly jumping between them. They're finding a correlation between ADD and depression, which is well known.
Corrupt People are usually officials or banksters (Score:0, Interesting)
Officials and banksters have stolen more, killed more, and harmed more than all the depressed people on Earth ever will in a trillion years.
None of them obey any law, perhaps that's why people are angry, which the article mistakenly calls depressed.
Time to call the kettle black. Without the fucking DSM-IV shit.