I don’t think we need this.
“What are the practical applications of this research? We hope to use our findings to develop a software application that could be installed on home computers and mobile devices. It would monitor your Internet usage and alert you when your usage patterns might signal symptoms of depression. This would not replace the function of mental health professionals, but it could be a cost-effective way to prompt people to seek medical help early. It might also be a tool for parents to monitor the mood-related Internet usage patterns of their children.
Such software could also be used at universities, perhaps installed on campus networks to notify counselors of students whose Internet usage patterns are indicative of depressive behavior. (This proposal, of course, raises privacy concerns that would have to be addressed.) “
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't a good reason to be.
Together with Obamacare, go to the “wrong” list of sites or in the wrong order and your compulsory prescription will soon be ready.
Depressives never spend the weekend compulsively reading the Sunday Times.
It’s heavy on the correlations of activity, but very light on the causation side of things. It says depressives switch between email and video games a lot. Lots of non-depressive people do that too. Lots of people who have short attention spans are perfectly happy.
IOW, a practically useless study. Did we pay for it?
I’m on the Internet ‘cause I tend to get bored.
What could possibly go wrong?
(It's encouraging to see how many FReepers picked up on this point)
I agree with the theory that self pity is at the root of depression, and that would mean people who frequent liberal websites are clinically depressed, whatever that means. They should be put in straight jackets before they hurt themselves or someone else, or before they can use their votes to hurt us.
I’m on the internet because the household TV is monopolized by baseball games of which I tire quickly - esp. when the team you’re watching and rooting for is in last place.
Go to an unapproved site, such as FR, and "warning flags" alert the authorities, who send the jack boots to confiscate your guns "for your protection". Disagreement and protest will only confirm your "depression" and require detainment or if "severe enough", immediate termination.
I already know I’m depressed. I suspect most ‘depressives’ do.
I’ve NEVER had a problem admitting when I have a problem. It all just depends on whether I want to do anything about it or not...
Of course, the internet gets boring because I reached the end of it several months ago...it’s all just a repeat to me now.
The depressed visited more sites on how to commit suicide. Thanks, feds, for the money handout. Now, onto our next study which shows a difference between sites males and females spend most of their time visiting, again, all paid by you, the taxpayer...
Not my ream per se but this is what happens. After they loose I have pre made partials of thrown away barbies, GI Joes and other dolls then they're dressed in pin stripes, Boston red/gray , Dodger blue. I set them op on a log( sometimes it's a baseball card of a pic on a stick of some idiot I do NOT like far down the way so as not to harm anyone and fire away with my nice Remington 700, or maybe full auto on the Mattel, the AR-15 or the MP-5 and for up close and personal the special loads for my sig sauer P-226 then a finishing touch with the Walther P-22. If i still cannot hit anything well, the Ithica( I had a 36, you know the duck bulled contraption that blows whole front of houses away!).
If I'm still angry and not laughing at the sheer fun of blowing hell out of dolls, the fun and idiocy of it I take out the samurai sword, make weird noises like John Belushi and hack away.
Of course if there's a pheasant,dove, the neighbors pigeons, a deer or a real live duckie, a squirrel or a rabbit, well they take precedence. I am depressed no longer. Go back to watching baseball and have fun cleaning, and reloading all over again...then I go to church Bible studies...muahahahahahahaa. Eat that you &*&^&* shrinks!*retired shrinker aka nurse scratchit
Social scientists and “counselors” of almost every stripe are suuuuuuch whiney, opportunistic, controlling attention whores:
They get out their flashy ho clothes after a mass-shooting, so eager to show how indispensable they are.
Some are sincere, but many are would-be cops who hated guns, would-be auditors who had no knack for math.
HERE they go again...
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Ya think?
Which means if 'we' track your every mouse click, every webpage you visit and how long you spend there, 'we' can make sweeping generalizations about your mental health. Of course, 'we' decide what is 'healthy' and what is not.
This information, and the conclusions drawn from it, wrong or right, will be used against you to deprive you of your rights.
I get depressed any time I read the news about what this President is doing to my country. Hard not to be depressed when you see your country being dragged down the rabbit hole!