Haidt mentions the "like button" at 4:00 and KZfaq flashes a ring around the LIKE button on this video. lol. But seriously, great discussion. Huge fan of Jonathan. He's brilliant as ever here.

I thought this was an excellent conversation. If we do not start addressing the damage technology and social media is causing our children now, I hate to see what kind of adults will be living in our society 25 years from now. I do wish more parents would heed the alarm. I often see toddlers navigating their way around cell phones and tablets much more adeptly than I do at the age of 60!

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt on why he says social contagion is behind the surge in the number of cases of people claiming to be transgender: "Because it happens in clusters of girls, it happens in clusters of girls who had no previous gender dysphoria when they were young."

The smartphone and social media released an evil genie and it is so hard to put it back into the bottle. But Jonathan Haidt is spot on and I hope he succeeds.

Thanks, Ms. Hoover, for this great interview.

I had an experience at church a few years ago where teens addressed the congregation and shared their troubles. The four teen girls who spoke ALL said they were Self-Harming. I'm in my 60s and had never heard those words before, let alone that behavior. When Jonathan talked about kids learning behaviors (socio-genetically) from other kids, that really jumped out at me. I am CERTAIN that all four girls would NOT have come up with the idea of cutting themselves on their own. It was learned, and social media just super-charges those negative behaviors.

Thinking the "Z" in Gen Z must stand for Zuckerberg. --Dr. Haidt's latest book is extremely eye-opening.

I remember taking a month off of social media...and I just kept going. It's been a while since I've scrolled unconsciously on hypnotical apps. Social media is no longer social...it's hypnotical. The workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels helped a lot - it goes well with Jonathan's book I believe.

HOLY HELL does this make me thankful I don't have school age kids or grandkids!

Keep getting the word out, Jonathan Haidt. "Smart" phones and social media are NOT a form technological progress if the tech is deleterious to society.

En 44 años de docente universitaria, nunca ví tantos problemas psicológicos en les jóvenes

This was so interesting. Of course there is a way out. This problem is of our own creation; the solution is, as well.

Of the course irony is, I’m watching this on my iPhone.

It's not just children. Adults are affected by this technology too.

I tried only 1 year of FB and I knew that shite was not for me...., well I do not know what to do with YT, though....

The need for congress to get involved is correct but keep in mind resolute lawyering will execute their duties for their client no matter the harm, torment or destruction of our innocent children. The problem is the practice of resolute law when children are at risk.

Insightful.

Who is the director? I want to cite this episode and I need that information. Thanks!

Was Margaret Hoover having a stroke when she read the voiceovers for this episode?

I agree with all concepts except for brains being locked to a configuration. That’s just myopic thinking. I believe adults can unlearn and learn behaviors with the right mind set and actions. So there’s still hope.

What do you want to bet that many of the people who also recognize these problems and would like to see something done, are also investors in the companies that are ruining their own and our children. Isn't life so full of cruel irony?

About Section 230 that Prof. Haidt wants it to be repealed and replaced. Silicon Valley senior journalist Kara Swisher has the same concern in her new book “Burn Book”. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8iofrOrqN2rfoU.html

This is not difficult at all. I have kids and they either get a flip phone or a smartphone with Bark or Custodio. You can monitor, block or limit social media content. You want to lose your kids? Give them an open unlimited use of a smartphone.

Parents are fools. But so are American teens. All should know better, truly.

Our national leaders received the memo regarding upcoming global digital transformations. Most ignored the memo. Florida began some planning 1997. As a nation, we did not heed and prepare, as required.

I grew up playing video games back in the day, and he's wrong about a few things 1) playing video games was very exciting. The rules for video game were concrete. There was no favoritism. If you were good, it was through practice and problem solving. Video games are merocratic that way. Kids who used cheat codes were not looked up to by us. The guys who beat the game fair and square were. And were excited for them. Any norm violation was "punished" usually in the form of ridicule by the social group. 2) kids are not allowed to jump off planes. And 3) we jumped anyway.

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PAY ATTENTION to what JOnathan Haidt says we've dnoe: "Replaced a PLAY-based childhood with a TECH-based childhood." Overdue to LIMIT PHONES (BAN them at school) & really limit them otherwise.

Wow, she's full on...

(suggestion for any guest of any video similar to this one (and life in general): no vulgar (or profane) language)

I fear the cure, censorship, will be worse than the disease. These problems cannot be fixed by state intervention but by good parenting.

Margaret- your introduction: stop shouting. :)

Mags……..reel it that intro k?

I think we're raising an anxious generation because of the bizarre way this woman speaks. If people could just be themselves, they'd be happy. DUH.

man it would suck if my maleable childlike brain watched this video for 27 minutes

Why is her intro screaming at us? 😅

What about the great re-wiring of the Boomers? They're nuts!!!

How overwhelmingly unscientific.

The fact that so many other researchers are calling BS in Haidt’s research and he’s not countering that shows the grift.

Technology is not the problem. The problem is how some people use it.

I'm getting sick of Haidt. He's everywhere right now using fearmongering to get people to buy his book. So, yes this is an issue, but buyer beware. He's been trying to prove his hypothesis for years, and as he even admits, correlation is still not causation. He is not doing the differential required to rule out other variables for childhood anxiety and depression. And there are many. By making social media the boogie man, he is diverting attention away from the stress factors that lead kids to their phones in the first place. And those underlying issues need to be addressed. I see hundreds of kids a year as a psychologist diagnostician and I have only encountered a handful of kids who spend 9 hours a day on a device. But Haidt calls it an epidemic, blaming everything from suicide and the "collapse of mental health" on phones. Kids come to my practice when they aren't coping with life, and I survey their screen time. What I see are kids who are in sports, music, theater, debate, cheer, camps, clubs, STEM, art etc. Kids are busy with a lot of healthy activity (sometimes too much) and very few of the most anxious of them are ever on a device all day. I also see kids who are addicted to media, but there are so many variables impacting them, and the ones who are glued to their phones are seeking to numb themselves from other sources of stress. (If it wasn't a phone it would be something else.) The education systems are archaic (not teachers - but systems), they have fewer options to learn a trade, they have more obstacles to attending college, they see mass shootings, excessive cruelty in popular music, movies and books (don't get me started on YA lit), parents enduring economic stress, global warming threats, erosion of human rights and civil rights, they are absorbing plastic into their bodies at alarming rates... so many variables...Do you know what else happened in 2010? A cultural divide broke wide open in this country through a platform for open hate speech and poisonous grievance, the normalizing of bullying, and a wealth gap wider than ever in history. Kids aren't getting this from phones, but from us, the adults. If we want to know why kids are stressed, we need to take a look at ourselves as adults and ask what kind of world we are creating for our children. The problem is so much bigger than phones. And taking them away is not going to solve the problem. Teaching them media literacy will be a good start. But encouraging positive social platforms is another. I should just write my own damn book. And stop social psychologizing all over us Haidt, until you do your due dilligence.

What the smartphone did to children is nothing compared to what it did to Boomers and thus the world in 2016.

Sorry, Just one more thing. Ask yourself, why is Haidt picking on kids. As if adults are doing so much better. Hold up a mirror, Haidt, and look at yourself...self-righteous, unquestioned, hyperbolic, stretching the truth, "This is about the worst thing you can imagine..." It is not the worst thing you can imagine. Well, maybe it is for you because you have imagined this entire "epidemic" so you can sell some books. Give us a break.