This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome my

colleague and friend Thaddeus McCatter American Greatness to comment on a new

article he has up at American Greatness, a product of the Journal of American Medical Association.

The article has a very, very overwhelming title, I'll read it.

Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on social media with longitudinal functional

brain development.

That's the full title.

If I understand what that is writing about is that young people especially

are unduly influenced, especially young people who check 15 times or more on their social media sites.

They are unduly influenced about people's opinions of them.

They become extremely sensitive to social thought, social attitude, social nuance.

In other words, they're being trained in some fashion to make them extremely vulnerable, if I understand correctly.

Fifteen times is what the Jama Network points to.

That is, how does this match up to what we understand of what going on now with younger

people of social media and politics.

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John.

Well, what we're seeing is that at the stage

of adolescent development where the brain is continuing

to grow and to have patterns and grained that will last a lifetime.

People are becoming what the article and I think what the studies have called, quote,

hyper social.

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