The Anxious Generation

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Books, Politics, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.6 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? It's complicated! Thanks to Emily Weinstein, Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Dean Burnett, Michael Mullarkey and Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz for help researching and fact-checking this episode! Where to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources: Emily Weinstein's book, "Behind Their Screens"Positive and negative uses of social media among adolescents hospitalized for suicidal behaviorThe Sisyp...

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0:00.0	Do you have a singer is your is your brain to addled from being on Instagram? I like how we're going to be making jokes about that like it's not true
0:07.2	Oh, I guess I'm stupid now because I can only think in dumb memes isn't that right? Jonathan, hey? I'm literally
0:13.9	scrolling on Tik-Tok right now, I'm not listening. I'm just responding to a
0:18.2	picture of the Hawk-Toe girl with the word mother as we speak. We do a whole episode where you describe what you think my internet
0:26.8	activity is. I think that's what you think I do. You just have some, burner account with the Abbey of some like AI generated Twink and you're just like going around commenting slutty bullshit all over the place.
0:42.3	We should have never taught you what Twink means.
0:45.0	What do you have?
0:48.0	What do you have?
0:49.0	All right.
0:50.0	Peter. Michael.
0:51.0	What do you know about the anxious generation?
0:53.6	All I know is that if you're here to tell me that Tik-Toc hasn't ruined Zoomer's brains, we're
0:59.2	going to be in a fight. So the full title of this book is The Anxious Generation, colon,
1:18.0	how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.
1:24.0	This has been on the bestseller list for weeks.
1:26.4	It was at one point the number one New York Times
1:29.1	best selling book in the country.
1:30.3	It's extremely popular.
1:31.5	It started a huge amount of discourse about what are the teens doing on their phones and I think
1:36.8	This is a good distillation of the argument that the phones are ruining the teens
1:41.9	Well also though like boomers also fucked
1:45.3	due to their phones.
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