As we saw earlier, young people have increasingly spent more time online and less time with each other in person, which may be one reason why depression, unhappiness, and loneliness rose. If liberal teens spent less time socializing in person and more time on social media than conservative teens, that might explain why their mental health suffered

This is Gen Z in a nutshell: concerned with authenticity, confronting free speech issues, pushing the norms of gender, and struggling with mental health. With the generation dominating the young adult group in the 2020s, Gen Z is demanding our attention.