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It’s not just social media. Free roaming and spending time outside on their own or with peers went down dramatically for the last 30 years.
Few deny that a drinking age is necessary. We also need a smart phone age. It's quite obvious that many teens are addicted to their phones and the mostly useless content they consume there.
Is it just like PTSD where most people who encounter combat trauma just make it back fine and even that one-third of those who encounter extreme combat trauma make it back just fine? Or is it that it's like PTSD where most people never encounter traumatic events of any cause and therefore don't have PTSD.
Identifying what's different about those who are sick and those who aren't will probably yield something interesting.
It’s not just social media. Free roaming and spending time outside on their own or with peers went down dramatically for the last 30 years.
My son sometimes has a hard time trying to get his friends to spend time outside, because they’d rather be on their phone on TikTok or Snap.
I’m not a parent nor am I a teen so take my comments with a grain of salt. The one thing that has consistently jumped out to me on this topic is how quickly people seem to jump to convenient answers. Of course you can’t ignore the rise of social media since 2010, but what about the level of control, structure, and surveillance that most young people have been subjected to over the same arc of time? That gets no atten…
There is a lot of data to support the social media effect specifically (some referenced in the linked articles from Twenge), and I suspect the next few posts from Rausch will dive in more deeply, so it's not right to claim that they're jumping to convenient answers - these aren't casual bloggers sharing their reckons.
edit: actually there's a heap of related writing on that site, e.g. https://www.afterbabel.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epi...
It’s not just social media. Free roaming and spending time outside on their own or with peers went down dramatically for the last 30 years.
But I know those aren’t the reasons kids don’t play outside anymore.
It’s not just social media. Free roaming and spending time outside on their own or with peers went down dramatically for the last 30 years.
Most urban spaces these days are incredibly depressing. No points of interest within walking distance. Lots of large and difficult to cross roads. Combined with the very real danger of cycling in many places. As well as the loss of small businesses that used to be interspersed in residential areas.
I mean being depressed is one thing, living in a world that's literally cooking at the same time just takes it up a whole other level.
I guess in the past, no matter how bad things got for you on a personal level, you could kind of count on the world being there if you got through it, now it's sort of 50/50.
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I think that arc largely peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with stranger danger and the satanic panic nonsense. Helicopter parents and people calling social services on unattended kids was already a meme by the 90s.
Parents weren't GPS tracking their children in the 1990s.