Jonathan Haidt says parents are overprotective in the real world and underprotective in the virtual world.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental IllnessAround 2007, two significant events occurred. First, the rise of the smartphone and social media. Within a few years, iPhones and Android phones became ubiquitous, and platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter exploded into popularity. The second development was a noticeable decline in youth mental health.
The teen mental health crisis isn’t only a US phenomenon. Haidt presents evidence from various advanced nations, including Canada, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. The “great rewiring of childhood” affected teens across the globe.includes some evidence for Australia, but as I read it, I grew more curious about the extent to which the worsening of teen mental health had occurred here.
Jonathan Haidt argues that social media’s impact has been most pronounced among girls because they use the platforms more.Yet as any good social scientist knows, correlation does not imply causation. Just because two trends coincide does not mean that one caused the other. Could there be other factors at play?
Further evidence comes from the early years of Facebook’s introduction to US universities. As Facebook became available on a campus, students’ mental health declined. Still more evidence comes from randomised trials that asked young people to reduce their social media use for a few weeks. Those who spent less time on social media became less lonely and depressed.Alternative theories just don’t fit the data. For example, the mental health crisis was afoot before COVID.
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