Am 15.03.2024 um 18:16:50 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > Fascinating reading here: > <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/>. > It completely explains why GenZ are having so many problems with > adulthood. Smartphones and Social Media are the culprits.
I am from Gen Z and I can't understand why a smartphone should be guilty here. It might be a device that is part of the problem like alcohol can be when used wrong. > The problem was not limited to the U.S.: Similar patterns emerged > around the same time in Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, > the Nordic countries, and beyond. By a variety of measures and in a > variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after > 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related > disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we > have data. I can understand anxiety (oncoming war, economy problems), but not the rest. From school I remember many people who followed the words "Why do we learn? We will die because of climate change anyway". > The decline in mental health is just one of many signs that > something went awry. Loneliness and friendlessness among American > teens began to surge around 2012. Academic achievement went down, > too. According to “The Nation’s Report Card,” scores in reading and > math began to decline for U.S. students after 2012, reversing decades > of slow but generally steady increase. PISA, the major international > measure of educational trends, shows that declines in math, reading, > and science happened globally, also beginning in the early 2010s. I know many people in school who really asked why they should learn that because they never gonna need that. I was the misfit because I did mostly computer-related stuff in my free time (not gaming), but at the end it definitely was and is still worth it. -- Gruß Marco Send spam to 1710523010mu...@cartoonies.org