Jonathan Haidt

And that was fine.

You call your friends, that's great, no problem.

2010 is when the first front-facing camera comes out on the iPhone 4.

2010 is when Instagram comes out.

The girls all get on Instagram in 2012 after Facebook buys it.

High-speed internet is increasing.

So by 2015, now everyone has a smartphone with social media in their pocket.

And now they're spending, I forget what the numbers are back then, but now it's up to around eight hours a day is the average just on their phone.

And then there's TV, there's computers.

So you're up 10, 12 hours a day on screens, mostly alone.

So don't tell me that these things give you community.

The internet gave you community.

Social media just addicts you, takes up your whole day and feeds you stuff that makes you want to kill yourself.

We're at a turning point in human history, I'd say, because Gen Z is now turning 30.

If you start with birth year 1996, Pew says 1997, whatever.

Gen Z is basically 29 this year, they'll turn 30 soon.

So they're beginning to have kids.

What that means is that we are now, for the first time, gonna have the next generation of kids, which will actually be Gen Beta.

Gen Alpha is the kids born, say, 2011 through 2025 and 24.

What we now have is parents are having kids, and these will be the first parents in history who are gonna raise kids without having had a normal human childhood themselves, without having learned how to play.