Apple has introduced new software designed to help users restrict the time they spend on their phones — just change your settings and your favorite app will lock you out after a certain number of hours. It’s been especially welcomed by parents who fret about the habits of their “screenagers” — young people who seem permanently attached to their mobile devices.
Even Silicon Valley insiders demanded that Apple make its devices “less addictive.” Some researchers have gone so far as to declare that smartphones have psychologically destroyed a generation of millennials and are fueling theepidemic of teenage anxiety and suicide in the United States. One study notes a spike in anxiety and depression among teenagers in 2011 — around the time of broad smartphone adoption.
But I’ve come to believe that conventional wisdom about the relationship between troubled kids and their favorite technology is wrong.
[For more on this story by Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...eenagers-stress.html]
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