r/drama: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

8 2017-08-15 by alexmrb

4 comments

1 SnapshillBot 2017-08-15

You're oversimplifying a complex situation to the point of adding nothing to the discussion.

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1 alexmrb 2017-08-15

That's the article title.

1 TSA_Precheck 2017-08-15

I wish they would've destroyed mine.

1 Letterbocks 2017-08-15

1 autotldr 2017-08-15

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 98%. (I'm a bot)

At the generational level, when teens spend more time on smartphones and less time on in-person social interactions, loneliness is more common.

The teen suicide rate was even higher in the 1990s, long before smartphones existed.

What's the connection between smartphones and the apparent psychological distress this generation is experiencing? For all their power to link kids day and night, social media also exacerbate the age-old teen concern about being left out.

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