Fwiw, this is fixable, at least for us adults who know what it is like (what it used to be like) to have an attention span. A two week screen detox will slow your brain so that reading books again becomes possible and enjoyable. Those two weeks will be a bit painful, while you relearn how to be unoccupied and unbusy. |
I don't use Tik Tok, and I know this is happening to me from other online browsing. And I'm old so my brain is fully formed yet it's still a problem so imagine the impact on a brain that is still developing. |
I’m a 21 y/o woman that reads his books and I find a lot of what he writes to be reflective of my personal experiences. |
Ding ding ding. |
A new paper talks about the danger of social media for the young. It appears to cause an increase in the sensitivity to peer feedback. No one is sure if that is good or bad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/health/social-media-brain-adolescents.html https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2799812?guestAccessKey=7fedb432-3c46-496d-be6b-e9b7394a71f2 |
Of course they’re struggling, they’re young people. Young people struggle. It’s what every coming of age book and movie from forever is about. This group is struggling more loudly because finally someone has given them a voice to say what every young person wishes they could have said - that the world that is laid out for them isn’t what they want for themselves. It’s a culture clash, period, but these kids are actually shaking things up in a way the older generations really didn’t or couldn’t. |
Gen Z I think is going to have more negative outcomes for women than previous generations. Didn't social media cause high school girls to become more depressed than boys for the first time ever? |
That's what you hope. But you don't have any way to back this up. |
That concern is mentioned in the article. |
I would love to hear more from your perspective as a Gen Z. |
Which explains the increase in social anxiety. It’s so common now, it’s a Gen Z personality trait. |
No really not the same. I have much older children who graduated from university already and younger child who went through MS during pandemic. Younger DC’s peers have many many more mental health issues. Older children and their friends report they are glad to have just missed out on ubiquitous social Media in their teen years. It is especially damaging for girls. |
You need to actually read his article before making nonsense arguments discrediting valid points. There are many truths about the devastating impact ubiquitous social media is having on mental health of our young people and he is not slamming youth. |
Yes, ultimately if they can’t hack life because they’re so convinced they need a safe space for their anxiety they’ll be open to just giving up, giving in, capitulating to communism or whatever else is just easiest for them. I mean how do we even expand our domestic hard and soft power of kids are just too woke to defend our nation and sort of flop over in a lather of discombobulated internal strife? |
“I didn’t really read it, not am I aware of how toxic social media is, from evidence based on peer reviewed studies, but I can speak confidently out of my rear end. This entire topic is just old people bthcing about young people as has been done for centuries. There is no rise in anxiety among the young because I said said so and like I just want to chill and eat some fast food and like stop writing stuff.” |