Hey, give your kids some smartphones. (Oh, you already have?)

So really, social media, right?

 

I wonder if they controlled for family environment/involvement.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

At least its not a pool table. It's always something the old folks are worried about.

 

All the tech oligarchs dont let their kids use their own products, that kinda tells you something

 

Kind of like the anti-education politicians send their kids to Ivy League schools.

 

Or why DeSantis was one of the first people getting a COVID shot

 

Always something ... "TV" was the boogie man when I was kid ... then it was video games ...

 

Where’s my tin foil hat?

 

Yeah, but investors are killing it, so. . . .

 

That's what generates $$$ so that's what you'll get, whether you like it or not. Hey, someone's got to look out for poor Zuck and his quarterly reports to investors.

 

Zuck and his investors love you! Such a compliant sheep.

 

But there was no evidence to back those claims up. This is on Social Media and there is more and more every day. And it 'ain't good! Go look at some of Jonathan Height's work on this. Specifically, the spike in teenage suicide among girls post 2013 (when smart phones became ubiquitous). HOCKEY STICK!

But, nah, nothing to worry about here. Just the old folks being cranky. Zuck and his investors love you and are banking on this lame narrative to keep the profits rolling in.

 

Oh, you got trouble with a capital T and that ends with P and that stands for TRUMP. Sorry about making the thread about Trump, I've just been waiting to do that.

 

Trump's no worry. He's bought and paid for by China/TicTok. Just sign the check and the policy is yours. There you go liberals, the solution is as simple as good fundraising.

 

Add in the incidence in eating disorders to that data. Another hockey stick.

 

I'm sure that's a part of it, but the cell phone issue for youth likely extends beyond social media. This report appears to be based on survey data. Results from empirical studies will be more compelling, but the addiction aspect has merit. The research will be emerging now, as there has been enough time to collect longitudinal data & replicate studies for the sake of validity.

Several years ago I observed a student teacher in a HS band class. Affluent suburban setting. Class policy was that students could view their cell phones while not playing their instrument. Like clockwork, when the teacher worked with one section all the other students picked up their phones. It was like zombie behavior and nothing I'd seen before. Now that's one anecdote and a reflection of a failed school/class policy, but suggests something about the addictive and counter-productive nature of cell phone use among adolescents.