Hi, I would be very interested in discussing this. I am from Hungary, I have a good knowledge of many trends here.
My first comment is that the whole history of the last three decades was completely different here, and in all neighbouring nations. Indeed after the fall of communism there was a decline in everything: standard of living, and various measures of mental and bodily health. The local minimum was reached around 2010, the last big recession hit us strongly. Afterwards things started to improve starting from 2010. The whole region was a big winner of the last decade. All neighbouring countries. In effect, fertility rates increased, marriage rates increased, divorces, abortions, suicides went down.
My conjecture is that this trend counters the effects of social media.
Also, I conjecture that the negative effects of social media will eventually show up.
Note that tiktok use started later here, and it is not yet as widespread. But it is happening.
Hi, I would be very interested in discussing this. I am from Hungary, I have a good knowledge of many trends here.
My first comment is that the whole history of the last three decades was completely different here, and in all neighbouring nations. Indeed after the fall of communism there was a decline in everything: standard of living, and various measures of mental and bodily health. The local minimum was reached around 2010, the last big recession hit us strongly. Afterwards things started to improve starting from 2010. The whole region was a big winner of the last decade. All neighbouring countries. In effect, fertility rates increased, marriage rates increased, divorces, abortions, suicides went down.
My conjecture is that this trend counters the effects of social media.
Also, I conjecture that the negative effects of social media will eventually show up.
Note that tiktok use started later here, and it is not yet as widespread. But it is happening.
I wonder what the data look like if you stratify by race & ethnicity.