On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 06:58:55AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > 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.
Yes, it took a long time to understand what different quantaties of alcohol do to a human. Meanwhile there are signs that "screen time" has a damaging effect. It is reason we have this email thread. > > 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 hope the answer was: It needs training to master a skill, so train. > 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. It was training that brought the success. Surely NOT the "It is OK that I'm a misfit". Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
