Creative Writing Padlet - Tyler Yin by Tyler Yin

Central Claim / Argument

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-07 14:33:43 UTC

Smartphones and social media, increased the difficulties found in the modern generation

MLA Format - Inlcuded for all the Evidence, Counterarguments, and Claims

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-10 14:49:49 UTC

Haidt, Jonathan, "End the Phone-Based Childhood Now", "The Atlantic". March 13, 2024, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Claim

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 02:55:53 UTC

"Shared adventures and shared adversity bound young people together into strong friendship clusters within which they mastered the social dynamics of small groups, which prepared them to master bigger challenges and larger groups later on."

Evidence

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 02:57:30 UTC

"In the 1990s, American parents began pulling their children indoors or insisting that afternoons be spent in adult-run enrichment activities. Free play, independent exploration, and teen-hangout time declined."

Evidence

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 02:57:57 UTC

"In 2015, the Pew Research Center found that parents, on average, believed that children should be at least 10 years old to play unsupervised in front of their house, and that kids should be 14 before being allowed to go unsupervised to a public park. Most of these same parents had enjoyed joyous and unsupervised outdoor play by the age of 7 or 8."

Counter argument - #2

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 02:59:14 UTC

"By 2003, 55 percent of American households had a computer with (slow) internet access. Rates of adolescent depression, loneliness, and other measures of poor mental health did not rise in this first wave. If anything, they went down a bit. Millennial teens (born 1981 through 1995), who were the first to go through puberty with access to the internet, were psychologically healthier and happier, on average, than their older siblings or parents in Generation X (born 1965 through 1980)."

Evidence #2

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:03:35 UTC

"In 2011, only 23 percent of teens had a smartphone. By 2015, that number had risen to 73 percent, and a quarter of teens said they were online “almost constantly.” Their younger siblings in elementary school didn’t usually have their own smartphones, but after its release in 2010, the iPad quickly became a staple of young children’s daily lives. It was in this brief period, from 2010 to 2015, that childhood in America (and many other countries) was rewired into a form that was more sedentary, solitary, virtual, and incompatible with healthy human development."

Counter Argument #3 - Another Side

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:04:46 UTC

"Touchscreen devices were also a godsend for harried parents. Many of us discovered that we could have peace at a restaurant, on a long car trip, or at home while making dinner or replying to emails if we just gave our children what they most wanted: our smartphones and tablets. We saw that everyone else was doing it and figured it must be okay."

Evidence #3 - Parenting

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:05:26 UTC

"Because the platforms did nothing (and still do nothing) to verify the stated age of new-account applicants, any 10-year-old could open multiple accounts without parental permission or knowledge, and many did. Facebook and later Instagram became places where many sixth and seventh graders were hanging out and socializing. If parents did find out about these accounts, it was too late. Nobody wanted their child to be isolated and alone, so parents rarely forced their children to shut down their accounts."

Evidence #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:06:12 UTC

"The most recent Gallup data show that American teens spend about five hours a day just on social-media platforms (including watching videos on TikTok and YouTube). Add in all the other phone- and screen-based activities, and the number rises to somewhere between seven and nine hours a day, on average."

Evidence #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:06:50 UTC

"Pew reports that in 2022, one-third of teens said they were on one of the major social-media sites “almost constantly,” and nearly half said the same of the internet in general. For these heavy users, nearly every waking hour is an hour absorbed, in full or in part, by their devices."

Evidence #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:07:23 UTC

"I recently surveyed my students at NYU, and most of them reported that the very first thing they do when they open their eyes in the morning is check their texts, direct messages, and social-media feeds. It’s also the last thing they do before they close their eyes at night. And it’s a lot of what they do in between."

Claim #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:08:09 UTC

"But perhaps the most devastating cost of the new phone-based childhood was the collapse of time spent interacting with other people face-to-face."

Evidence #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:09:17 UTC

"A study of how Americans spend their time found that, before 2010, young people (ages 15 to 24) reported spending far more time with their friends (about two hours a day, on average, not counting time together at school) than did older people (who spent just 30 to 60 minutes with friends). Time with friends began decreasing for young people in the 2000s, but the drop accelerated in the 2010s, while it barely changed for older people. By 2019, young people’s time with friends had dropped to just 67 minutes a day."

Evidence #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:10:53 UTC

"But in many virtual networks, people can easily block others or quit when they are displeased. Relationships within such networks are usually more disposable."

Evidence #4 Anxiety

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:12:18 UTC

"when Gen Z arrived, beginning around 2014. Students began requesting “safe spaces” and trigger warnings. They were highly sensitive to “microaggressions” and sometimes claimed that words were “violence.”'

Evidence #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:13:43 UTC

"Their phones are pinging constantly—one study found that the typical adolescent now gets 237 notifications a day, roughly 15 every waking hour."

Evidence #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:14:15 UTC

"The neural basis of behavioral addiction to social media or video games is not exactly the same as chemical addiction to cocaine or opioids. Nonetheless, they all involve abnormally heavy and sustained activation of dopamine neurons and reward pathways. Over time, the brain adapts to these high levels of dopamine; when the child is not engaged in digital activity, their brain doesn’t have enough dopamine, and the child experiences withdrawal symptoms. These generally include anxiety, insomnia, and intense irritability. Kids with these kinds of behavioral addictions often become surly and aggressive, and withdraw from their families into their bedrooms and devices."

Evidence #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:14:48 UTC

"Estimates for the prevalence of IGD range from 7 to 15 percent among adolescent boys and young men. As for porn, a nationally representative survey of American adults published in 2019 found that 7 percent of American men agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “I am addicted to pornography”—and the rates were higher for the youngest men."

Evidence #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:15:10 UTC

"A study of teens in 29 nations found that between 5 and 15 percent of adolescents engage in what is called “problematic social media use,” which includes symptoms such as preoccupation, withdrawal symptoms, neglect of other areas of life, and lying to parents and friends about time spent on social media. That study did not break down results by gender, but many others have found that rates of “problematic use” are higher for girls."

Claim #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:16:05 UTC

"This rerouting of enculturating content has created a generation that is largely cut off from older generations and, to some extent, from the accumulated wisdom of humankind, including knowledge about how to live a flourishing life."

Evidence #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:18:16 UTC

The definition of anomie is, "lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group."

Sociologist. Durkheim

"Durkheim argued that anomie was a major driver of suicide rates in European countries. Modern scholars continue to draw on his work to understand suicide rates today."

Evidence #6

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:19:12 UTC

"Gen Z were the guinea pigs in this uncontrolled global social experiment. We were the first to have our vulnerabilities and insecurities fed into a machine that magnified and refracted them back at us, all the time, before we had any sense of who we were. We didn’t just grow up with algorithms. They raised us. They rearranged our faces. Shaped our identities. Convinced us we were sick."

Evidence #6

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:20:12 UTC

"'Frances Haugen: “Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rates of anxiety and depression among teens,” an internal document said. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”'

Claim #7

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:20:56 UTC

"Social media, in contrast, applies a lot more pressure on nonusers, at a much younger age and in a more insidious way."

Evidence #7

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:21:56 UTC

"On average, students said they’d need to be paid roughly $50 ($59 for TikTok, $47 for Instagram) to deactivate whichever platform they were asked about. Then the experimenters told the students that they were going to try to get most of the others in their school to deactivate that same platform, offering to pay them to do so as well, and asked, Now how much would you have to be paid to deactivate, if most others did so? The answer, on average, was less than zero. In each case, most students were willing to pay to have that happen."

Evidence #7

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:22:19 UTC

"Later in the study, students were asked directly, “Would you prefer to live in a world without Instagram [or TikTok]?” A majority of students said yes––58 percent for each app."

PreEvidence - Suicide Rates

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:32:12 UTC

"Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies from 2010 to 2019. The suicide rate rose 48 percent for adolescents ages 10 to 19. For girls ages 10 to 14, it rose 131 percent."

PreEvidence - Decrease in Academic Performance

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:35:46 UTC

"According to “The Nation’s Report Card,” scores in reading and math began to decline for U.S. students after 2012, reversing decades of slow but generally steady increase. PISA, the major international measure of educational trends, shows that declines in math, reading, and science happened globally, also beginning in the early 2010s."

PreEvidence - Shyer - Decrease in Social Skills

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:36:50 UTC

"Surveys show that members of Gen Z are shyer and more risk averse than previous generations, too, and risk aversion may make them less ambitious"

PreEvidence - Decrease in generational performance

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:37:37 UTC

"OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison noted that, for the first time since the 1970s, none of Silicon Valley’s preeminent entrepreneurs are under 30. “Something has really gone wrong,” Altman said. In a famously young industry, he was baffled by the sudden absence of great founders in their 20s."

Evidence #1 - Children development

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:40:12 UTC

"A child’s brain is already 90 percent of its adult size by about age 6. The next 10 or 15 years are about learning norms and mastering skills—physical, analytical, creative, and social. As children and adolescents seek out experiences and practice a wide variety of behaviors, the synapses and neurons that are used frequently are retained while those that are used less often disappear."

Evidence #1

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:44:50 UTC

"Young people who are deprived of opportunities for risk taking and independent exploration will, on average, develop into more anxious and risk-averse adults."

Subheading #1

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:48:09 UTC

Decrease in social interaction and play in a young growth stage, leads to inabilities to function in society

Claim

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:51:07 UTC

"The difference in "rules" between generations is clear, and this hinders the abilities given to the modern generation."

Subheading #2

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:52:35 UTC

The "KEY" differences between generations, with the catalyst of technology and the innovation across the years

Explanation

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:54:52 UTC

In the beginning of the age of tablets and handheld technology, it was something that helped a lot and what I would call a "quick fix solution."

Subheading #3

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:56:22 UTC

Technology is so accepted that without technology. Kids and Teens feel left out.

Subheading #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 03:58:14 UTC

SmartPhones are so involved in a person's life

Subheading #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:01:03 UTC

SmartPhones create anxiety and other terrible negatives/implications. (Addiction, Depression, Suicide, etc)

Subheading #6

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:08:45 UTC

Better off without social media and phones

Implication

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:28:51 UTC

This shows how technology immersed itself in society, making it "normal" but it is not

Implication

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:30:43 UTC

This statistic highlights the incapabilities in our recent generation, and the role we play is so insignificant.

Implication

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:32:44 UTC

Youth are super malleable and should be taught in a free growth manner not connected with technology and smart phones

Implication for Subheading #5

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:34:12 UTC

Smartphones are a catalyst and share many connections to the problems that the modern technological generations face, and this is widespread across the world.

implication - Subheading #4

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:35:50 UTC

This personally opened my eyes to the chokehold that phones and my screen has on my personal life. It is something that I need to take control of. I can definitely see how this can connect to many of the modern day obstacles.

Key Terms

tcy15_1 — 2024-10-17 04:40:16 UTC

Depression

Suicide

Dopamine

Addiction

Interaction

Deprivation

Virtual Networks

Microaggressions

Problematic

Absorbed

Godsend

Unsupervised

Independent

Behavior

Adolescent

Anxious

Risk-taking