How Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids’ Mental Health: ‘There’s Massive Evidence of Harm‘
How Smartphones Are Hurting Our Kids’ Mental Health: ‘There’s Massive Evidence of Harm‘
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book 'The Anxious Generation' argues phone use is a primary cause behind the youth mental health crisis.
There is no science behind the claims in this article (and the book).
Not that this'll stop people from buying into the false narrative and buying the book.
Massive evidence: authors' feelings.
Science: none
The irony of this comment is just incredible.
For anyone not brain-dead: the scientific evidence that excessive exposure to social media garbage and “doom scrolling” is bad for you and especially bad for children is completely overwhelming. It’s something we’ve known for years. Jonathan Haidt is a douchebag who picks low hanging fruit.
Damn, I wonder how that happened in these intervening years to radicalize young men.
Facebook gets politically involved, and in just 8 short years:
Does this mean we can’t have social media? No, it just means the way we are living, the hellscape of online abuse and concrete jungle we’ve created for the next generation is making us vulnerable to manipulation and misery. This isn’t about social media. It’s about the fact that most of you fuckers haven’t touched grass in years. That’s why our democracy is dying.
Jonathan Haidt is an idiot so I assume the book is bad, but this Nature article you linked is quite possibly even worse.
The amount of misinformation around this serious topic is a reflection of people’s emotional attachment to their silly tech.
I definitely there is an addictive nature to smartphones and the apps and social media we engage in. Kids are getting a high from infinite scrolling and depression and anxiety from pressure of social media. Marketing on crack.
There’s also something to people becoming armchair psychologist, the popularity of the field and over diagnosis.