back in 2017, it was twangy, a psychologist who teaches at san diego state, who warned the world how social media had created a mental health crisis for young people. at the time, she was greeted with skepticism. in a provocative atlantic article called have smartphones destroyed a generation she made a revelatory connection that 2012 is when smartphones had hit the threshold of being used by the majority of americans and the year that facebook acquired instagram. that same time that same year it began a skyrocketing of rates of teen depression and suicide. she warned that igen, as she called them, was on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades, much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones, and the pandemic made things worse. the latest of many alarming statistics, the percentage of high school female students who seriously considered attempting
minimum age of 13 for social media use, calling it a common sense bipartisan approach to stop the suffering. back in 2017, it was twangy, a psychologist who teaches at san diego state, who warned the world how social media had created a mental health crisis for young people. at the time, she was greeted with skepticism. in a provocative atlantic article called have smart phones destroyed a generation. she made a connection that smart phones had hit the threshold of being used by the majority of americans and the year that facebook acquired instagram. that same time that same year it began a skyrocketing of rates of teen depression and suicide. she warned that igen, as she called them, was on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades. the pandemic only made things worse. the latest of many alarming
mental health metrics of teens. she published her findings in a much published book called it is the term ph.d. at san diego state university uses to refer to those born between 1995, and 2012. she also wrote a provocative article in the atlantic back then saying this. around 2012, i noticed abrupt shift in teen behaviors, and emotional states. in all my analysis of generational data i had never seen anything like it. it is not an exaggeration to describe i jen as being on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades. much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones. 20 warned of what was on the horizon, and she was right. six years later she has just published a follow-up, a new book with more data backing up her hypothesis, connecting social media to teen depression. it is called generations. she points out that 2012 marked