Social Media and Young Women's Mental Health

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i hardly even opened my facebook page. I have my web mister looks at it periodically to see if there's anything that's exploded there. i'm very cautious about the moral panic of saying, this is down to a mobile phones or or social media. And then we've got to bear in mind our really strong, inbuilt tendency to moral, moral panic around any new technology before we jump to conclusions. We are more or less the same now as the s in the k so this is cutting across and i think youre no looking atow as our information environment, ar soctial media environment and our technog environment could be affected. You do think there's a lot there

Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.