Smartphones are not the source of all social ills | Henry Oliver
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Smartphones are not the source of all social ills | Henry Oliver
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen against the idea that smartphones are causing a mental health epidemic among teens.
Apparently Obamacare included a recommended annual screening of teen girls for depression and HHS also mandated a change in how hospitals code injuries. https://t.co/VsSsliW5XQ
- Quotable: “Please please please center young people rather than tech. They need our help. Technology mirrors and magnifies the good, bad, and ugly. It’s what makes the struggles young people are facing visible. But it is not the media effects causal force that people are pretending it is.”
The Links x Techno Sapiens guide to teens & screens
If I’d had a smartphone and social media when these photo were taken, my brain chatter would’ve been very different to: we’re gonna miss the bus/will Supre still have those flares I want/can Wayne’s World be as funny the third time? (Yes.)
Research indicates they wouldn’t have been positive. Adolescence exacerbates... See more
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The thing about this theory, trendy among Western cultural elites, is that it lets those same elites totally off the hook for the catastrophic values they are propagating to the next generation. https://t.co/mLWcRhES48