This is bullshit. I'm under the spell of heavy depression but I hit none of the main points of the article. I'm not a gamer, I almost never watch movies and don't use much P2P, I only listen to music maybe three to four times a month because I can't get in the mood much these days, the only use I have for email is for billing, subscriptions and anything that requires it.
"It would monitor your Internet usage and alert you when your usage patterns might signal symptoms of depression"
I'm not a depressive under their criteria. The software they hope for is broken before they even wrote a single line of code.
You know what helps coping with depression ? Alcohol, smoking, not standing in front of a computer downloading loads of crap to listen and watch.
There are depressed people who don't use the internet at all. Your symptoms would just fall into something like "IRL symptoms". I think the the study is trying to point out a detection mechanism for depressives who use internet. It wouldn't be a holistic diagnosis. That said I'm not sure corelation and causation in this study. I feel like people can use the internet for "escape" and "entertainment" and still lead perfectly fulfilling lives.
"It would monitor your Internet usage and alert you when your usage patterns might signal symptoms of depression"
I'm not a depressive under their criteria. The software they hope for is broken before they even wrote a single line of code.
You know what helps coping with depression ? Alcohol, smoking, not standing in front of a computer downloading loads of crap to listen and watch.