Have Smartphones Destroyed A Generation Summary . Typically, people change through a slow evolution, and so The smartphones, and the social media craze that accompany them define the generation born. 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?" "Have Smartphones Destroyed Generations?" is the question Jean M. Motorola Moto g3 (3rd gen) PLEASE READ ITEM DESCRIPTION (Garrett Higgins) Twenge's article "Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation" sheds light in the hopelessness of the future generation with the advent of social media and smartphones. That they are going to navigate the world of the smartphone just as my generation had to navigate the birth of cable TV, the advent of ...