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Any technology that is a substitute for in-real-life socialization is going to hurt your happiness. And so, in our efforts to solve every problem and distract ourselves from encroaching misery in our lives, enter the smartphone, which has made it possible for us to solve the problem of human boredom, which by the way eliminates the right hemisphere of the brain and helps us find meaning through mind wandering. We literally need to be bored.

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3w ago

The answer is that adults were in distress and parents were dying. OK, let's go back to that elephant in the room. Social media and smartphones also increased during this period. But here's the weird thing. In our longitudinal studies, social media does not emerge as a major predictor of teen mental health.

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