A couple of weeks ago, Jonathan Haidt published a piece, “End the Phone-Based Childhood Now,” for The Atlantic. Even now, it’s up there as one of its most-read articles. Haidt, along with Jean Twenge, is among the foremost mainstream critics of phone/online-based upbringings. The timeline is well-known: in 2009, Facebook unveiled Likes, and in 2010, the iPhone 4 was the first iPhone with a front-facing camera. Around 2012, smartphones overtook sales of traditional cell phones as the dominant mobile communication device. And then, depression and loneliness and insecurity spiked among young people, especially girls.
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