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Re:Have smartphones destroyed a generation? by crooked-v on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:52AM (#15513758)
First it was Generation Me in 2006 [1], then The Narcissism Epidemic in 2010 [2], and now iGen in 2017 [3]. All three books follow exactly the same pattern: stick a vapid and insulting nickname onto the latest generation, call that generation lonely and narcissistic, and blame it all on the latest technological innovations while completely ignoring the broader economic and social context. Each book directly contradicts the previous one and directly contracts her own previous studies [4], while simply reusing the same arguments and switching the target from generation to generation.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Americans-Confident-Assert...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Age-Entitl...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy...

[4] https://www.livescience.com/52771-why-teens-are-happy-adults... "Very quickly, Twenge said, a pattern emerged: The eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders of today are happier than the eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders of previous decades."

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Re:Have smartphones destroyed a generation? by ryandrake on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:57AM (#15513778)
Also, the whole "article" is an obvious advertisement for the author's book, your link #3.
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Re:Have smartphones destroyed a generation? by coffee9 on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:53AM (#15516729)
Certainly the parents are completely blameless.
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Re:Have smartphones destroyed a generation? by olewhalehunter on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:06AM (#15513800)
I don't have the luxury to pay attention to most media or opinions administered by anyone older than 45, neuroplasticity loss can be really blatant when paired with decades of alcohol use, and they're all going to be dead or vegetative by the time a crisis comes, where in the past wiser and less pampered elders could have led us.
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