{"id":1734,"date":"2012-06-16T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2012-06-16T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T15:19:20","slug":"depression-and-internet-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2012\/06\/16\/depression-and-internet-usage","title":{"rendered":"Depression and Internet Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sriram Chellappan and Raghavendra Kotikalapudi wrote an interesting piece called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/how-depressed-people-use-the-internet.html?_r=2&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">How Depressives Surf the Web<\/a>&#8221; for <em>The New York Times<\/em>. Their findings include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The more a participant\u2019s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included&#8230;high levels of [peer-to-peer] sharing files (like movies and music)&#8230;very high e-mail usage&#8230;[and] increased amounts of video watching, gaming and chatting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why I feel like online social communities, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>, play such an important role on the Internet. These signals of depression are the same types of behavior that bond such networks together. They make people feel like they&#8217;re not alone, like there are others (hundreds of thousands of others) feeling the same, thinking the same, and relating to their individual personal experiences.<\/p>\n<p>So what do\u00a0Sriram and\u00a0Raghavendra plan to do with this research?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The application will then generate a post for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dae\/\" target=\"_blank\">r\/DAE<\/a>, complete with more kittens than you can count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sriram Chellappan and Raghavendra Kotikalapudi wrote an interesting piece called &#8220;How Depressives Surf the Web&#8221; for The New York Times. Their findings include: The more a participant\u2019s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included&#8230;high levels of [peer-to-peer] sharing files (like movies and music)&#8230;very high e-mail usage&#8230;[and] increased amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,75],"tags":[671,670,130],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-rY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}