From: The New York Times
The Alarm Over Social Media Is Getting Through to Teens
Over the past few years there has been a growing chorus of parents, doctors and legal experts who have been sounding the alarm about the effects of social media on teenagers. Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist and the author of “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” is among the most prominent voices warning against the omnipresence of technology in the lives of adolescents. In an interview with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein, Haidt described the tech backlash as “a parent’s revolution.” He added: “All over the world, family life has turned into a fight over screen time. We’re all fed up; we want to do something about it.”
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