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The truth about Gen Z - and the rest of us (with Jean Twenge)

Good Faith

CHAPTER

The Role of Smartphones in Depression

There's been a lot of this focus on the individual level. But these technologies affect people even who don't use them. Social media is social. That's what it is. It's a way for people to communicate. So if you use it, then as we'll get to, you know, you're spending a lot of time on that and not time on more beneficial things. There's negative influences on there and so on. And if you don't use it, you might feel,. you might feel left out and a lot of teens describe that. Teenagers will tell me things like, I feel like I can't win. This is a group level issue, not just at

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