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"Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?"
Topic Started: Mar 30 2018, 02:19 AM (3 Views)
MarkGraham
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More comfortable in their bedrooms than in a car or at a party, today’s teens are physically safer than teens have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Around 2012, I noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. In all my analyses of generational data—some reaching back to the 1930s—I had never seen anything like it. What happened in 2012 to cause such dramatic shifts in behavior? it was exactly the moment when the proportion of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50 percent.
Born between 1995 and 2012, members of this generation are growing up with smartphones, have an Instagram account before they start high school, and do not remember a time before the internet.
.... The results could not be clearer: Teens who spend more time than average on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities are more likely to be happy. There’s not a single exception. All screen activities are linked to less happiness, and all nonscreen activities are linked to more happines.
Social-networking sites like Facebook promise to connect us to friends. But the portrait of iGen teens emerging from the data is one of a lonely, dislocated generation. Social media levy a psychic tax. If you were going to give advice for a happy adolescence based on this survey, it would be straightforward: Put down the phone, turn off the laptop, and do something—anything—that does not involve a screen. "

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