How smartphones are dooming a generation - The Spectator World

How smartphones are dooming a generation - The Spectator World - Fraser Nelson

"Jonathan Haidt argues that the tools of social media are just too sharp for young minds
Something strange is happening with teenagers’ mental health. 

In the US, Britain, Australia and beyond, the same trend can be seen: around the middle of the last decade, the number of young people with anxiety, depression and even suicidal tendencies started to rise sharply. 

Jonathan Haidt, a psychology professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, noticed a change when students who were brought up with smartphones started to arrive on campus. 

• They were angrier. 
• More fragile. 
• More likely to take offense.

Social media, he concluded, was shaping their view that society is in permanent…