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Are Smartphones Raising a Mentally Fragile Generation?
"Yes," says psychology professor Jean Twenge who says that the smartphone and social media are the cause:...I think technology is part of the problem, but it is also the professors, parents and society that don't allow kids to fail and feel okay. Everyone is supposed to be a famous superstar and if you can't make it in Hollywood, you make it online with Instagram etc. Teens have such high expectations of themselves on one hand and a limited ability for hard work and perseverance on the other that it is no wonder they feel distraught. This discrepancy between what a teen thinks they should be and what they are sets them up for depression and mental instability. Add in no real world experience and a lack of ability to handle failure and you have a recipe for an unhappy life. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-11-16 |
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