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NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse?
Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge.
This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵 https://t.co/cBAgrLWKi5
Christ this data is so grim:
"The troubling decline in conscientiousness. A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults." https://t.co/gOKhcpzAaB
The rise in teen depression coincides with the proliferation of smartphones and social media. “It’s very suspicious that teen anxiety and depression really started to take off around 2012, because that’s when 50 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, when social media went from optional to virtually mandatory, and when smartphones got... See more
Derek Thompson • Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
Jean Twenge argues that technological change is the largest single driver of generational differences, in her book, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future. Putnam and Twenge both point to the “individualizing” or “atomizing” effect of new technologies of... See more
The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
The clearest impact of technology on teen development to date has been starkly negative. According to psychologist Jean Twenge’s 2017 book, iGen, smartphone use has caused a spike in depression and anxiety among people born from 1995 on, and a diminution in sociability and independence. An excerpt of her book in The Atlantic was aptly titled, “Have
... See moreAndrew Yang • The War on Normal People
The number of teens with significant distress was unchanged or down between 2002 and 2010, but then jumped sharply between 2010 and 2018, especially among girls (see
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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