Have Smartphones Destroyed A Generation. Smartphones are linked to problems, but they haven't "destroyed a generation." In the Atlantic, demographer and author Jean Twenge finds a series of troubling new dots to connect between social media and teen depression, raising the question: "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" In "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?", Jean Twenge while smartphones have decreased the chances of children getting physically, they have increased the mental health problems. But they're on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
They are markedly less likely to get into a car accident and. The iGeneration might be more isolated than previous generation but smartphones are at most a confounding factor in this equation. But they're on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
The article goes into detail on how smartphones take away some of the desire/need to grow up and.
Smartphones have allowed a generation of people to have access to more knowledge than their ancestors ever have and that is only a good thing.
That article, by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge, summarized the correlational data linking teen mental health with technology and suggested the. The initial stage of courtship, which Gen Xers called "liking" (as in "Ooh, he likes you!"), kids now call "talking"—an ironic choice for a generation that prefers texting to actual. More comfortable in their bedrooms than in a car or at a party, today's teens are physically safer than teens have ever been.
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