Hi, and welcome back to The Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

And welcome to the new time slot.

The Carol Markowitz show is moving to Wednesdays and Fridays so you can get my non-political

podcast, this show, the Carol Markowitz Show, on Wednesday and Friday.

And then normally, the political podcast I co-host

with Mary Catherine Ham every Tuesday and Thursday. You only don't get me on Mondays. Sorry about that.

So I got a DM from a listener who writes, Hi, Carol, I love the show and that you take questions.

My daughter is 16, a junior in high school, and while she has friends

that she sees in school, her calendar is completely open. She never has plans on the weekends or after

school. She's mostly in her room and she seems lonely. What's interesting is that when I talk to

friends, they say their kids also never see their

friends outside of school. Is this normal? What do you suggest? I mean, to say these kids are having

a completely different experience than I had as a teenager, I'd get home, spend five seconds

doing my homework, and I'd be out the door to hang out with friends. It really has changed.

And I see that in the teenagers

around me as well. I don't want to say the obvious social media destroyed our real life

relationships because while I think that plays a role, I don't think that's the whole story.

And as I've written before and I think I talked about on here,

these teenagers are barely using social media anymore. They're really just watching TV on their

phones. Like they're not socializing. They're not commenting in each other's walls. They're not

posting pictures. They're watching little videos. And it's the equivalent of coming home from school

and just sitting in front of the TV. But I also don't think that's the whole story.

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