Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
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But they are.
Right now they are.
Childhood is shot through with all of these vices because we just let it happen.
So first let's talk about social technology.
There are technologies that let us be social, like the telephone.
Good, no problems.
Messaging, texting, WhatsApp.
Mostly good.
If you connect people, mostly good.
Weird stuff happens.
Kids get into large groups.
It takes on some of the feeling of social media.
But I've never said anything about restricting kids from WhatsApp or texting or other things like that.
Social media, there are a lot of ways to define it, but the prototype is people have a profile that anyone can look up.
They post content.
That's the key thing.
Users are generating the content.
TV studios have to pay a lot of money to make content, but what Meta and others discovered is, hey, let's just sort of motivate people so that they'll make all the content that other people come to see.
And then you have users communicating.
So there's a variety of features that put you into contact with people in this weird way in which, especially if a lot of the contact is one to many.
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