Meta must face US state lawsuits over teen social media addiction

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3. jonathan haidt - a promient social psychologist - has been warning about teens and social media for years. One example:

https://www.instagram.com/jonathanhaidt/reel/C-iubf1PzKH/

Teenagers are spending **nine hours** a day on screens, including five hours on social media every single day, per @gallup.

This is not a normal adolescence, as these 5-9 hours come at the expense of other healthy activities — sleep, exercise, time together with friends and family.

For teenagers to be healthy, they need to wire their brains in physical proximity to other people. This is how mammals mature. It can’t be done through screens.

Screen relationships are exponentially more numerous than in-person relationships, and for that reason they are exceptionally shallow, because one person can only maintain so many connections in any depth. Shallow relationships don’t build mental health, they don’t give us a sense of security — quite the opposite, these relationships change at the flick of an algorithm, or whenever you are no longer what your audience of strangers and near-strangers expects you to be.

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