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#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is There a Social Media Problem in Middle School?

i think we need to start treating social media a bit like smoking or drinking. When the millennials got social media in college or later, weren't damaged by it. There's no sign that millennials had a crisis of mental health cause their social nature was largely their brains were mostly developed. I'm just saying we need to set norms, and the norm should be nobody has a social meeting account until high school, or maybe aged 16. But that's probably undoable at this point. My life would be so much easier if only half the kids were on insta.

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