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[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

just read Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"... i have thoughts

it was a less a serious analysis of youth mental health and more a boomer panic attack dressed up in footnotes.

his big idea? that smartphones and social media broke childhood around 2010, and absolutely nothing else contributed. not inequality, not climate collapse, not mass shootings, not racism, not the slow-burn apocalypse of capitalism. just... the phone.

you almost expect him to add "get off my lawn" as a chapter title.

he calls it "the great rewiring". which sounds like a sci-fi reboot but is actually Haidt's excuse to blame every modern adolescent crisis on TikTok and Insta.

depression? ... screens.
gender identity questions? ... screens.
girls under pressure? ... not patriarchy, just selfies.
queer kids, poor kids, disabled kids? ... briefly mentioned, then memory-holed for getting in the way of the thesis.
the data? ... cherry-picked and dressed in objectivity drag.

Haidt ignores anything that doesn't sync perfectly with his smartphone-doom narrative. his solutions? ban smartphones till 14, kill social media until 16, and throw kids into "risky play" like it’s 1956 and there's a jungle gym made of asbestos behind every school. it's policy by Norman Rockwell painting.

for all his talk of "norms", Haidt utterly refuses to explore how different communities actually experience the digital world. he's too busy assembling a diorama out of rotary phones and stoic quotes.

his "cure" is useless to the kids who need it most because they're not even visible in the diagnosis.

worst of all, Haidt frames it all like this is "just the science talking" while serving up moral panic with a stoic flavor.

of course, it's **always** the stoics.

he doesn’t just ignore structural violence, he actively erases it. his "help" is only for kids with middle-class parents and ipad guilt.

also... "the mars hypothesis".... yes, really.

he spends pages describing how raising kids today is like raising them on mars. because of gravity. because of isolation. because apparently analogies about actual child development weren't dramatic enough, and he needed to imagine Earth as a space colony of lord of the flies being destroyed by Insta.

if anyone ever tells you that social science is boring, just show them the part where Haidt earnestly compares TikTok to a breakdown in atmospheric pressure.

this isn't a serious intervention. it's tech-blaming fanfic from a man who lost an argument to an algorithm and decided to write a book about it. and if Jonathan Haidt really wanted to help, maybe next time he should stop diagnosing the future like it’s a software glitch and actually ask the kids what they think.

no wonder it's on so many conservative parenting book lists... the scholarly equivalent of someone shouting "SATAN IS IN THE SNAPCHAT" while shaking a fist at the sky.

fuck this guy.

edited to add a part

#SkipIt #NotWorthThePaperItsPrintedOn

#bookreview #bookreviews #anxiousgeneration #book #books #bookstodon #haidt

just read Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"... i have thoughts

it was a less a serious analysis of youth mental health and more a boomer panic attack dressed up in footnotes.

his big idea? that smartphones and social media broke childhood around 2010, and absolutely nothing else contributed. not inequality, not climate collapse, not mass shootings, not racism, not the slow-burn apocalypse of capitalism. just... the phone.

you almost expect him to add "get off my lawn" as a chapter title.

he calls it "the great rewiring". which sounds like a sci-fi reboot but is actually Haidt's excuse to blame every modern adolescent crisis on TikTok and Insta.

depression? ... screens.
gender identity questions? ... screens.
girls under pressure? ... not patriarchy, just selfies.
queer kids, poor kids, disabled kids? ... briefly mentioned, then memory-holed for getting in the way of the thesis.
the data? ... cherry-picked and dressed in objectivity drag.

Haidt ignores anything that doesn't sync perfectly with his smartphone-doom narrative. his solutions? ban smartphones till 14, kill social media until 16, and throw kids into "risky play" like it’s 1956 and there's a jungle gym made of asbestos behind every school. it's policy by Norman Rockwell painting.

for all his talk of "norms", Haidt utterly refuses to explore how different communities actually experience the digital world. he's too busy assembling a diorama out of rotary phones and stoic quotes.

his "cure" is useless to the kids who need it most because they're not even visible in the diagnosis.

worst of all, Haidt frames it all like this is "just the science talking" while serving up moral panic with a stoic flavor.

of course, it's **always** the stoics.

he doesn’t just ignore structural violence, he actively erases it. his "help" is only for kids with middle-class parents and ipad guilt.

also... "the mars hypothesis".... yes, really.

he spends pages describing how raising kids today is like raising them on mars. because of gravity. because of isolation. because apparently analogies about actual child development weren't dramatic enough, and he needed to imagine Earth as a space colony of lord of the flies being destroyed by Insta.

if anyone ever tells you that social science is boring, just show them the part where Haidt earnestly compares TikTok to a breakdown in atmospheric pressure.

this isn't a serious intervention. it's tech-blaming fanfic from a man who lost an argument to an algorithm and decided to write a book about it. and if Jonathan Haidt really wanted to help, maybe next time he should stop diagnosing the future like it’s a software glitch and actually ask the kids what they think.

no wonder it's on so many conservative parenting book lists... the scholarly equivalent of someone shouting "SATAN IS IN THE SNAPCHAT" while shaking a fist at the sky.

fuck this guy.

edited to add a part

#SkipIt #NotWorthThePaperItsPrintedOn

#bookreview #bookreviews #anxiousgeneration #book #books #bookstodon #haidt

just read Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"... i have thoughts

it was a less a serious analysis of youth mental health and more a boomer panic attack dressed up in footnotes.

his big idea? that smartphones and social media broke childhood around 2010, and absolutely nothing else contributed. not inequality, not climate collapse, not mass shootings, not racism, not the slow-burn apocalypse of capitalism. just... the phone.

you almost expect him to add "get off my lawn" as a chapter title.

he calls it "the great rewiring". which sounds like a sci-fi reboot but is actually Haidt's excuse to blame every modern adolescent crisis on TikTok and Insta.

depression? ... screens.
gender identity questions? ... screens.
girls under pressure? ... not patriarchy, just selfies.
queer kids, poor kids, disabled kids? ... briefly mentioned, then memory-holed for getting in the way of the thesis.
the data? ... cherry-picked and dressed in objectivity drag.

Haidt ignores anything that doesn't sync perfectly with his smartphone-doom narrative. his solutions? ban smartphones till 14, kill social media until 16, and throw kids into "risky play" like it’s 1956 and there's a jungle gym made of asbestos behind every school. it's policy by Norman Rockwell painting.

for all his talk of "norms", Haidt utterly refuses to explore how different communities actually experience the digital world. he's too busy assembling a diorama out of rotary phones and stoic quotes.

his "cure" is useless to the kids who need it most because they're not even visible in the diagnosis.

worst of all, Haidt frames it all like this is "just the science talking" while serving up moral panic with a stoic flavor.

of course, it's **always** the stoics.

he doesn’t just ignore structural violence, he actively erases it. his "help" is only for kids with middle-class parents and ipad guilt.

also... "the mars hypothesis".... yes, really.

he spends pages describing how raising kids today is like raising them on mars. because of gravity. because of isolation. because apparently analogies about actual child development weren't dramatic enough, and he needed to imagine Earth as a space colony of lord of the flies being destroyed by Insta.

if anyone ever tells you that social science is boring, just show them the part where Haidt earnestly compares TikTok to a breakdown in atmospheric pressure.

this isn't a serious intervention. it's tech-blaming fanfic from a man who lost an argument to an algorithm and decided to write a book about it. and if Jonathan Haidt really wanted to help, maybe next time he should stop diagnosing the future like it’s a software glitch and actually ask the kids what they think.

no wonder it's on so many conservative parenting book lists... the scholarly equivalent of someone shouting "SATAN IS IN THE SNAPCHAT" while shaking a fist at the sky.

fuck this guy.

edited to add a part

#SkipIt #NotWorthThePaperItsPrintedOn

#bookreview #bookreviews #anxiousgeneration #book #books #bookstodon #haidt

just read Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"... i have thoughts

it was a less a serious analysis of youth mental health and more a boomer panic attack dressed up in footnotes.

his big idea? that smartphones and social media broke childhood around 2010, and absolutely nothing else contributed. not inequality, not climate collapse, not mass shootings, not racism, not the slow-burn apocalypse of capitalism. just... the phone.

you almost expect him to add "get off my lawn" as a chapter title.

he calls it "the great rewiring". which sounds like a sci-fi reboot but is actually Haidt's excuse to blame every modern adolescent crisis on TikTok and Insta.

depression? ... screens.
gender identity questions? ... screens.
girls under pressure? ... not patriarchy, just selfies.
queer kids, poor kids, disabled kids? ... briefly mentioned, then memory-holed for getting in the way of the thesis.
the data? ... cherry-picked and dressed in objectivity drag.

Haidt ignores anything that doesn't sync perfectly with his smartphone-doom narrative. his solutions? ban smartphones till 14, kill social media until 16, and throw kids into "risky play" like it’s 1956 and there's a jungle gym made of asbestos behind every school. it's policy by Norman Rockwell painting.

for all his talk of "norms", Haidt utterly refuses to explore how different communities actually experience the digital world. he's too busy assembling a diorama out of rotary phones and stoic quotes.

his "cure" is useless to the kids who need it most because they're not even visible in the diagnosis.

worst of all, Haidt frames it all like this is "just the science talking" while serving up moral panic with a stoic flavor.

of course, it's **always** the stoics.

he doesn’t just ignore structural violence, he actively erases it. his "help" is only for kids with middle-class parents and ipad guilt.

also... "the mars hypothesis".... yes, really.

he spends pages describing how raising kids today is like raising them on mars. because of gravity. because of isolation. because apparently analogies about actual child development weren't dramatic enough, and he needed to imagine Earth as a space colony of lord of the flies being destroyed by Insta.

if anyone ever tells you that social science is boring, just show them the part where Haidt earnestly compares TikTok to a breakdown in atmospheric pressure.

this isn't a serious intervention. it's tech-blaming fanfic from a man who lost an argument to an algorithm and decided to write a book about it. and if Jonathan Haidt really wanted to help, maybe next time he should stop diagnosing the future like it’s a software glitch and actually ask the kids what they think.

no wonder it's on so many conservative parenting book lists... the scholarly equivalent of someone shouting "SATAN IS IN THE SNAPCHAT" while shaking a fist at the sky.

fuck this guy.

edited to add a part

#SkipIt #NotWorthThePaperItsPrintedOn

#bookreview #bookreviews #anxiousgeneration #book #books #bookstodon #haidt

just read Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation"... i have thoughts

it was a less a serious analysis of youth mental health and more a boomer panic attack dressed up in footnotes.

his big idea? that smartphones and social media broke childhood around 2010, and absolutely nothing else contributed. not inequality, not climate collapse, not mass shootings, not racism, not the slow-burn apocalypse of capitalism. just... the phone.

you almost expect him to add "get off my lawn" as a chapter title.

he calls it "the great rewiring". which sounds like a sci-fi reboot but is actually Haidt's excuse to blame every modern adolescent crisis on TikTok and Insta.

depression? ... screens.
gender identity questions? ... screens.
girls under pressure? ... not patriarchy, just selfies.
queer kids, poor kids, disabled kids? ... briefly mentioned, then memory-holed for getting in the way of the thesis.
the data? ... cherry-picked and dressed in objectivity drag.

Haidt ignores anything that doesn't sync perfectly with his smartphone-doom narrative. his solutions? ban smartphones till 14, kill social media until 16, and throw kids into "risky play" like it’s 1956 and there's a jungle gym made of asbestos behind every school. it's policy by Norman Rockwell painting.

for all his talk of "norms", Haidt utterly refuses to explore how different communities actually experience the digital world. he's too busy assembling a diorama out of rotary phones and stoic quotes.

his "cure" is useless to the kids who need it most because they're not even visible in the diagnosis.

worst of all, Haidt frames it all like this is "just the science talking" while serving up moral panic with a stoic flavor.

of course, it's **always** the stoics.

he doesn’t just ignore structural violence, he actively erases it. his "help" is only for kids with middle-class parents and ipad guilt.

also... "the mars hypothesis".... yes, really.

he spends pages describing how raising kids today is like raising them on mars. because of gravity. because of isolation. because apparently analogies about actual child development weren't dramatic enough, and he needed to imagine Earth as a space colony of lord of the flies being destroyed by Insta.

if anyone ever tells you that social science is boring, just show them the part where Haidt earnestly compares TikTok to a breakdown in atmospheric pressure.

this isn't a serious intervention. it's tech-blaming fanfic from a man who lost an argument to an algorithm and decided to write a book about it. and if Jonathan Haidt really wanted to help, maybe next time he should stop diagnosing the future like it’s a software glitch and actually ask the kids what they think.

no wonder it's on so many conservative parenting book lists... the scholarly equivalent of someone shouting "SATAN IS IN THE SNAPCHAT" while shaking a fist at the sky.

fuck this guy.

edited to add a part

#SkipIt #NotWorthThePaperItsPrintedOn

#bookreview #bookreviews #anxiousgeneration #book #books #bookstodon #haidt

I'm at the half of "The anxious Generation" by now and what a great book. I'm really enjoying its lecture.

Not only for the content, but I also love the writing style, very referenced and with clear connection to the literature

#book #Books #bookstodon #haidt

@nrc_nl Het is knap hoe vaak dit kabinet de verkeerde afslag neemt. En klaarblijkelijk hebben ook te weinig mensen in haar directe omgeving Generatie #Angststoornis van Jonathan #Haidt gelezen. Of de adviseurs zijn niet doorgedrongen. Kan ook. Onvoldoende bewezen is het argument. Hoeveel bewijs wil je. Wat beter doordenken wat het verschil tussen betutteling en mensen tegen zichzelf in bescherming nemen is. Dat helpt misschien.

@nrc_nl Het is knap hoe vaak dit kabinet de verkeerde afslag neemt. En klaarblijkelijk hebben ook te weinig mensen in haar directe omgeving Generatie #Angststoornis van Jonathan #Haidt gelezen. Of de adviseurs zijn niet doorgedrongen. Kan ook. Onvoldoende bewezen is het argument. Hoeveel bewijs wil je. Wat beter doordenken wat het verschil tussen betutteling en mensen tegen zichzelf in bescherming nemen is. Dat helpt misschien.

@nrc_nl Het is knap hoe vaak dit kabinet de verkeerde afslag neemt. En klaarblijkelijk hebben ook te weinig mensen in haar directe omgeving Generatie #Angststoornis van Jonathan #Haidt gelezen. Of de adviseurs zijn niet doorgedrongen. Kan ook. Onvoldoende bewezen is het argument. Hoeveel bewijs wil je. Wat beter doordenken wat het verschil tussen betutteling en mensen tegen zichzelf in bescherming nemen is. Dat helpt misschien.

@nrc_nl Het is knap hoe vaak dit kabinet de verkeerde afslag neemt. En klaarblijkelijk hebben ook te weinig mensen in haar directe omgeving Generatie #Angststoornis van Jonathan #Haidt gelezen. Of de adviseurs zijn niet doorgedrongen. Kan ook. Onvoldoende bewezen is het argument. Hoeveel bewijs wil je. Wat beter doordenken wat het verschil tussen betutteling en mensen tegen zichzelf in bescherming nemen is. Dat helpt misschien.

@nrc_nl Het is knap hoe vaak dit kabinet de verkeerde afslag neemt. En klaarblijkelijk hebben ook te weinig mensen in haar directe omgeving Generatie #Angststoornis van Jonathan #Haidt gelezen. Of de adviseurs zijn niet doorgedrongen. Kan ook. Onvoldoende bewezen is het argument. Hoeveel bewijs wil je. Wat beter doordenken wat het verschil tussen betutteling en mensen tegen zichzelf in bescherming nemen is. Dat helpt misschien.

And in other news, a critical analysis of Jonathan #Haidt 's #AnxiousGeneration that questions his methods and conclusions in his anti-screens manifesto:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2024/05/15/haidt/

Again, the simple binary " #screens or not" fails to account for the wide range of other behaviors that affect a child's wellbeing.

My young kids have high #screentime by anyone's metric, but their other hours are stuffed with enriching, positive activities that actively build their minds, bodies, and hearts.

Kids and Social Media

“Livingstone has pushed back at limits on children’s screentime: it matters more what children do on screens, and in what context, rather than for how long. #SmartPhones and #tablets offer benefits as well as risks.

Children’s mental health is complex: by singling out tech for damaging Gen Z, #Haidt “is making an overdramatic claim. But I don’t think anyone would say that the way people use the phone has no impact on #mentalhealth. Many young people I interview say it makes their lives worse.”

#GiftLink #SocialMedia #Facebook #Twitter #Snapchat #Instagram
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@caseynewton

I loved #Haidt and his old school liberalism (trust the people) but he seems to have abandoned all that re social media. The guy is now all moral panic. He needs to explore the fedi and social media without big companies, advertising and algorithms. It's really everything we dreamed of, the public decides. Instead of being our advocate and pushing everybody here, he thinks there can be a righteous control of centralized services. Depressing as hell.

5 proposals to fight the bad influence of AI in social media:

1. Authenticate all users, also bots

2. Mark AI-generated content

3. Require data transparency with users, government officials, and researchers

4. Clarify that platforms can sometimes be liable for the choices they make and the content they promote

5. Raise the age of “internet adulthood” to 16 and enforce it

Article: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/ai-will-make-social-media-worse

#Haidt #Schmidt #AI #SocialMedia #Influencers #Sociology

"AI Will Soon Make Social Media Much More Harmful"

By Jonathan HAIDT and Eric SCHMIDT

4 threats:

1) AI will dump more garbage on social media

2) Much easier for companies and criminals to influence us

3) AI will make social media much more addictive for children

4) AI will strengthen authoritarian regimes

(5 proposals in the next toot)

Article: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/ai-will-make-social-media-worse

#Haidt #Schmidt #AI #SocialMedia #Influencers #Sociology