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| Smartphones & happiness |
| 2017-08-05 |
| h/t Instapundit Are smartphones destroying our kids? That’s the premise of an extensive article in September’s The Atlantic The author, Jean Twenge, has been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when she was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology. In this article she describes how the use of smartphones is so prevalent among the teen population, the generation she calls iGens, and how profound of an effect smartphones are having on social behavior, friendships, sex and more. Her premise, based on extensive research findings, is that this generation is more comfortable online than out partying, and while physically safer, they're on the brink of a mental health crisis. She found that the iGens hang out much less with their friends most days, with the frequency dropping by more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2015. Teens are dating less, with just 56 percent of high school seniors going out on dates in 2015, down from 85 percent for the previous generations. And they have more leisure time but waste it, spending more time in their room alone, on their phones, often distressed. |
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