I'm Hannah Rosen and this is Radio Atlantic.

So last week I was talking to a friend of mine

who shared this fantasy she has

of shipping her kids to a tech-free island

where there were no phones, no tablets,

no video games, no computers, not even a television.

Now, I've parented three teenagers

and I've had this fantasy myself many, many times.

And like all fantasies of frustrated parents,

it's useless.

Like you can practically hear the teen eye rolls

in the background.

This episode is my time to be useful

to address the problem of teens, their phones,

and their mental health from a place of facts

and research and actual knowledge.

So this week, I'm going to talk to staff writer

Caitlin Tiffany who writes about tech and online culture

and who knows that this issue is both urgent,

the laws are being considered right now

and to knowingly hard to pin down.

Obviously in eight years of writing about social media,

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