Dr. Keith Humphreys

I hate social media, I think it's bad for my mental health, but I have to be on it because everybody else is.

And that is really tragic.

And I think lots of people are in there.

And I read another story on the plane coming here of how much would you demand if you had to leave social media?

And people will say a certain money.

But you say if everybody else were leaving it, the same people would say I would pay money to be one of them.

So that is why things like the Australian social media ban are going to be really interesting because it's not really an individual punishment.

You're not being exiled from the party.

It's more of life is going to happen in person for teenagers.

And so that will make that real life more appealing than being online.

So I'm really fascinated and we don't know what's going to happen, really fascinated to see what happens.

We do see all across the country more people coming in with these types of problems, you know, like feeling like they can't stop looking at their phone or games or pornography is a really big one delivered through.

these media and of course there are now gambling apps you can use on your phone and that kind of thing and really have extremely difficult lives.

I mean they really have become absolutely consuming for them.

We don't know yet what the natural course is of this because it's new.

So what is the five-year course of social media?

That's really literally impossible to answer at this moment.

For what portion of people is a developmental thing that they will get out of?

For example, if you go into a college campus, you will see a lot of people drinking at levels that would qualify them for some level of alcohol use disorder and a huge number of them five years later

will be married and have a job and drink very little.