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In other words, there seems to be a divergence in network size with age between the two sexes. Women became more social, men less

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

Putnam believed that the single biggest risk factor was the growing amount of time people spent alone.

Even back when he wrote Bowling Alone —before smartphones and apps—teens were solitary for three-and-a-half hours per day. Adolescents spent more time alone than with their family.

For the first time in history, people were growing up disconnected... See more

Ted Gioia • 8 Ways of Connecting a Smartphone Can't Deliver

Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social media platforms incentivize and facilitate relational aggression. Their openness and willingness to share emotions with other girls exposes them to de

Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

We have generated billions of dollars for social media platforms through our desire—and then through a subsequent, escalating economic and cultural requirement—to replicate for the internet who we know, who we think we are, who we want to be.

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“The average mathematics score for 17-year-olds was not significantly different from that in 1973.”

Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton

"Materialistic kids have lower grades and higher rates of both depression and substance abuse than nonmaterialistic kids.”

Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

in 2008, 72 percent of college-educated women between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine had not yet had children.

Jennifer Senior • All Joy and No Fun

This underscores a major difference between Millennials and Gen Zs: the former group was taught to burnish their online presence, using every opportunity to stand out and look perfect; the latter group, which has never known a world without social media, prefers blending in and trying on new identities.

Rex Woodbury • 10 Characteristics That Define Gen Z (Part I)

"In the new book “The Anxious Generation,” the sociologist and pundit Jonathan Haidt links smartphone technology to escalating teen depression and other ill effects. “The members of Gen Z are . . . test subjects for a radical new way of growing up, far from the real-world interactions of small communities in which humans evolved,” he