Well, there's a lot and so we can we can kind of divide these consequences into different

categories.

But let's start with the most serious.

And the most serious is let's actually talk about physical health and well-being, right?

And here, there is just some really scary results, right?

Especially if you look at young women in generation Z. So the first generation to actually have

access to smart phones and social media started in their pre-taded early teenage years.

So you and I, we're millennials, we went to college, we arrived at college, we didn't

have these, we didn't have these as teenagers.

If you look at the statistics, there's nothing all that alarming about, let's say, self-harm

or mental health statistics for our generation.

There hasn't been much change that much change recently.

But if you look at generation Z in particular, look at young women in generation Z.

What you see is a massive spike, it's one of the scariest graphs I've seen.

If you look first at, let's say, anxiety and anxiety related disorders, and second,

when you look at actual sort of hospitalizations for self-harm, which is really the ground

truth, if there's a mental health crisis going on, because to sure there could be differences

in rapportiness, cultural norms change, but the thing that's the ground truth is how

many people have been hospitalized, let's say, for extreme depression, suicide attempts

or self-harm.

And that's just skyrocketed, and there's really no other way, no other explanation that

fits a timing than social media smartphones.

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