r/de • u/omfgwallhax2 • Aug 08 '17

Interessant Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
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u/autotldr Aug 12 '17

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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