Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The smartphone: downfall of civilization


Forget Climate Change, forget the disparities in wealth, forget the waste.  Its smartphones that are causing our society to crash.

Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University is responsible for this (not so outlandish) thesis. She has authored two books Generation Me and iGen but her condensed article that covers the smartphone is in a 2017 Atlantic article.

It has lots of interesting points but the most important is that there was an abrupt change in teen behaviour around 2012 when, for the first time, the majority of US teens had a smartphone.  Suicide rates doubled, depression was found to correlate with screentime.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/ 

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