Dr. Keith Humphreys

I mean, there are those kinds of maturing out effects.

Is there a maturing out effect in social media or not?

You know, for me, it was easy to... I used to do a lot of X and then I stopped or just do a teeny bit.

Now, that was particularly easy, but of course I had...

40 years of my brain not touching it, will that be as easy for whatever the most popular thing kids probably TikTok or Instagram or something.

If you've been doing that again, thinking in that plastic neuroplasticity from the time you were 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

Is it developmental?

When you're 25, will you be ignoring your kids?

Or will you not have kids because you don't have sex because you don't have a date because you're in all day looking at the phone?

Like what will that course be?

We don't know that yet.

Yeah, I know other people have done things like that or switched back to a dumb phone and to avoid the constant Bing notification, or there's also software you can get that like, you know, will suppress a lot of that stuff unless you specifically go in and enter a code and say, bring it all to me, you know, and those are, you know, useful things.

Like it's so new, right, that we haven't got a lot of social norms about it.

But, you know, think of something like drinking before noon.

There's no law against drinking before noon, and yet a huge number of people

by that norm, right?

It's not noon, you know.

And we might over time evolve some kinds of things about social media, I would hope, you know, like things that we all find sensible like don't do social media at the dinner table would be I think a good one or don't do social media in a restaurant or whatever.

I hope we'll do something like that because you can't solve this problem

just through individual clinical medicine, that's crazy.