iGen: The Smartphone Generation | Jean Twenge | TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool

Dr. Jean M. Twenge tackles society’s smart-phone addiction through a generational lens. As our phones have become more saddled to our everyday lives, Twenge examines the negative externalities associated with this phenomenon and how we can combat that issue right now. A Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, Twenge is the author of more than 140 scientific publications and six books, including iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy-and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@hayleybarnes5659]

Who else is watching this in 2021 as collage student that spends 5+ hours a day on their laptop just to get through the bare minimum of assigned classes/ homework

[@impulsiveguys7599]

K so as a teen with strict parents, the reason why I don't go out without my parents or see my friends as much compared to the previous generations, is because of parents. I would love to go out, but they are always overworrying smh

[@bumblerat1416]

there is a difference between correlation and causation. personally, i feel that my phone (and the Internet in general) has helped me understand mental health, the LGBT community, politics, humor, and history more than school has. those who are already struggling with, let's say, depression, are already more likely to socially isolate themselves and go on their phone. resources for mental health (and any educational services) are more prominent than ever. although phones can cause differing sleep habits and other physical changes, phones aren't always the direct cause for depleting mental health.

[@aweblasome3715]

*takes pic *Runs away me: what the heck man.

[@gracep4174]

The reason those people look unhappy is because a random person just took your picture

[@deepakadlar7927]

you're saying that go to watch sunset and meet with friends all outdoor things but my parents don't allow me and my siblings to go outside and here is no park or playground or even library so I can went and I am not rich so I can buy hardcopy books so what can I do without my laptop and phone.

[@amandatrayes5272]

Use your imagination. Try going outside. Invite a friend over and put your phones away.

[@DrJG9]

Right. To begin with, when meeting people, understand it's rude to keep attending your phone.

[@tonyflamingo4843]

Jyotsna Gokhale I know that...

[@brunovasconcelos1671]

Well, I don't think she meant that smartphones alone were causing the mentioned problems. But she's saying that if those teens spent less time isolated on their phones and more time in meeting in person or doing outdoor activities, their general health would surely be better, no matter the reason, (because there might be a lot of them), but do it and your health will be benefited from it, that's what her data suggest. I read her book and she discusses several possibilities for several trends like the ones she showed going on. I'm commenting here mainly because I've read some almost hateful criticism on her work. Like, it's a work about data. Even though she tries to reason them, she's mostly fair and honest about the whole thing, and it's a valuable reading both for older generations and for iGen themselves, because it may help them lead healthier lives.

[@noobnoob3489]

This graph is wrong, if you were born in 1994 you had smart phones in 2008-2012 meaning you had a smart phone from 10th-12th grade. Thats enough to make an impact on that generation. 1980-1989 should have its own generation and 1990-? Should be known as dippers

[@Luka-zt4ju]

Great way to say you're old and your life is falling apart Linda.

[@talgold1284]

I dont think technology is the problem. Most people just dont apply the tech to their own lives. Instead it seams they apply their lives around the tech. Tools are just tools. Use them dont stare at them

[@Bonniebelle_00__]

Exactly

[@i_1mpuls3]

@1Energine1 Maintain it's limits like everything else in our lives...

[@i_1mpuls3]

@1Energine1 That's not the purpose of them but ok boomer

[@kaejuka6249]

just like how guns don't kill people, people kill people. Don't ban the object, help the person using it to use it right

[@i_1mpuls3]

@@kaejuka6249 America clearly can't do neither

[@caucasiannoah9735]

Great now I have to do an essay become some boomer says teens with are phone are depressed and want to die

[@astanarr]

FACTS

[@chelseacoral4809]

I completely agree with a good amount of things she is saying. However this is geared more towards the after 2000 millennials. As I do believe babies from 1995-1999 grew up with technology, it was a DIFFERENT TYPE of technology. We have advanced so much in the past decades. I am sure there are some young adults out there such as I that still value conversation and physical socialization

[@salmon_sweet4912]

I saw mothers with earphones...

[@samanthacausey7173]

Totally agree! I remember a time when modern technology didn't exist. I remember the first game boy, the first iPod, old school arcades, etc... While I enjoy all the internet has to offer, and how much it has taught me about the world when my school failed, I very much value traditional socialization and deep conversations with close friends.

[@fitbean2]

if you were 15 and we were 10 when instagram came out, we are pretty much at an equal playing field seeing as you still had more experience with technology..

[@Wrldfait]

Older gen z vs younger gen z..

[@PadThaiPlz]

On the contrary with all due respect, I do think ‘95-99 grew up with technology. Granted it old tech but it is nonetheless digital tech (vs analog tech that millennials were around)

[@redbuck1385]

A lot of the down trends on those graphs start way before the advent of smart phones.

[@moshpitsandbongrips6998]

Generic ted talk tbh

[@DzielnyKompanion]

Things you own end up owning you

[@mikewazowski7526]

And then 2020 had come.

[@i_1mpuls3]

An argument that can easily crumble to pieces with the opposition being a 15 year old.

[@raulrkirkpatrick4430]

Each generation is defined by something

[@franciscolopez7101]

I agree that people waste too much time on their phones, but the way she presents some of her statistics is misleading. Look at the scale on some of her graphs, she has a tendancy to manipulate the scale to make small changes look big. The first graph she puts up is a good example of that (the scale only runs from 1.7 to 2.9). She says the suicide rate for 12 to 14 year olds has doubled since 2007, but if you look at the scale on her graph you see that the suicide rate has gone from one in 100,000 to two in 100,000 for girls, and that the number for boys is the same as it was in 2000.

[@David-sj4fk]

Uh yeah, she's a Baby Boomer. The actual entitled generation. They like to blame everyone else. Most of what she says is inherently wrong. She wrote an entire book which is basically about her misinterpreting graphs and studies. She's not a very intelligent person.

[@ExistentialWill]

Twenge claims the "economic factors don't line up so unemployment was actually going down" yet that might only prove that having a drudgery job increases your depression levels, not just phone use. Wild thought. Maybe depression levels rise in phone use because people find this pseudo-science speech on their phones. Sophistry.

[@i_1mpuls3]

Gen Z not iGen ma'am

[@stanleyklein524]

The scholarly content of a can of spoiled spam.

[@fuosdi64]

1995-2012 is a terrible range. It's too long.

[@wendybabendy]

Dr. Twenge's book is a MUST read for teachers, and another that works with kids of this generation - it explains SO MUCH about what we are witnessing (the things that make us shake our head). I have recommended this book to so many people... I should get a commission! LOL - seriously, it's a very good book.

[@envisci_bi]

Almost everything she said in this video was unproven biased or just plain wrong. It seems like she makes heavy use of correlations, which are meaningless in the scientific method, and she has a clearly wants to distance older generations from stereotypes while reinforcing the ones for milenials and Z-er's

[@mkpnjbh7296]

i’m a 1996 born, at age 11-12 i started using smartphones (android) then later shifted to iphones.

[@livihogan5600]

Does anyone know where to find her sources?

[@birdboy48]

Yep, her book makes a big point of clearly identifying the various databases she uses. Ongoing surveys with large cohorts which go many years back in time. If you've ever taken a research methods class, she includes a quick rehash of the things one needs to be aware of when looking at surveys. There's something like 100 different graphs in her book, so the data is fairly impressive. It's not just "Me and my friends all believe such and such."

[@jory9698]

The sources are easily found and true, but her conclusions are wrong all along....

[@kj475]

@@jory9698 Other than your own anecdotal experience and that of maybe a handful of people you know, what extensive research do you bring to the table that supports your claim that her conclusions are wrong?

[@stanleyklein524]

@@kj475 Basic human rationality for a start.

[@andrewgraham2919]

correlation is not causation. ted talks are so reductive. i can't believe I was assigned to watch this. talk about a lack of peer review!

[@martint5129]

Where can i get an version of this with spanish subtitles?_?

[@paragonrealtyteam4914]

Intergenerational Carping.

[@misfithomemaker3683]

As an xer with an I gen, I can tell you that I do not plan on her ever leaving home, and boomers do not understand that, they seem upset their millinials are not leaving home. I'm preparing myself and my child for a changed world where generational family living is the new economic reality. Also, my generation grew up with pstd fathers, vets of the war in Viet nam. They were often addicted to drugs and alcohol. We know what addiction is, yes my kid is like a drug addict. The behavior is exactly they same. The best thing that could happen to us is societal collapse, God forgive me for saying it but it's true.

[@saeedafrimpong3550]

You don't plan on her EVER leaving home? Have you considered what she might want?

[@kaitlinmerritt6930]

what is wrong with you?

[@lucassousa1252]

5:53 I saw you

[@conman570]

Pretty sure we’re trollGen cause I bet 80% of the kids surveyed were trolling

[@stephaniess9113]

And what about now? Smartphones in a pandemic are almost a must...

[@szaboetele6652]

ez nagyon jó,igen

[@i_1mpuls3]

Ok Karen

[@polbasilio8290]

The world is developing fast, while our brains are getting dumber fast.

[@wokemojo703]

Thank God somebody did this. It needed to be said. All of it.

[@jory9698]

Except that lots of her conclusions are wrong, based on misleading correlations

[@envisci_bi]

Almost everything she said was either blatantly wrong, biased, or cant be backed up.

[@David-sj4fk]

@@envisci_bi Yeah, I don't think she who knows who Daniel Kahneman is, or atleast don't care about biases.

[@RUDEYJR]

3rd

[@MAR7870J]

Clorox Bleach OMG you again

[@maribarchi]

girl give me one reason why i should believe you or your data

[@MasterTSayge]

I'm so glad I'm a late Gen X. In my days we made long meaningful genuine friends. Summer of 1996 was the golden age for me. Introverts can easily make friends and have a blast.

[@jordanmoch2222]

Twenge is such a lair. Where I live, a town dominated by skate parks in every neighborhood, I ride my bike to one in my neighborhood (and I lived in it for almost 19 years as of today) and never before has there been so much youth and teenagers skating/scootering/BMX'ing. It began one day in 2014 and haven't stopped coming there since. Before then, NOBODY went to that park, especially that skate park. I dare for a response.

[@Andrei-cp5jr]

Jordan Moch they started watching all the bmx/ skate videos on KZbin and wanted to do the same thing. I have to tell you though, my skatepark hasn't had any new riders for years and it really makes me sad that less and less kids are interested in skateboarding or bmx (at least here)

[@jordanmoch2222]

@@Andrei-cp5jr Yes, I noticed that they watch those vids on their phones at the park occasionally. My point is there has been a lot of youth interested in these activities where I live since spring of 2014. Before not that many young people went there, maybe with one or two skaters but mostly dead even on sunny days. No exaggerations.

[@p4rtyf4v0r]

Anecdotal evidence doesn't disprove the data

[@jordanmoch2222]

@@p4rtyf4v0r Yeah, I admit that my experience may be anecdotal, a faulty style of argumentation that doesn't disprove the whole data sets. But if you consider my descriptions further illustrated in my point, this "anecdotal" evidence shows before five years ago the park was scarce, then come spring that year it as if there was like a massive youth boom all of a sudden (admittedly, there's less young people there now than that spring, but still significantly more before that year). However, my overall point here is if Twenge claims smartphones keeping teens indoors is the trend, then why is that where I live it's practically the opposite?

[@calmanxiety1]

In London, it's the opposite, you'd definitely not find as many kids in parks playing than you would have in my time growing up. And I was born in 1995.

[@Jacob-mr7eg]

Ok boomer

[@tlizzle8344]

Jacob Piccolo nice

[@jakubanusik4922]

she's not boomer.

[@David-sj4fk]

@@jakubanusik4922 Dude, trust me, she's a boomer.

[@jarretheller2244]

Was Dr Jean born a male?

[@andrewh2891]

ok boomer

[@TheRoland19111]

Thais womannis like the Primordial Karen.

[@hackerman2022]

First

[@ayunanlangit5188]

second

[@crunchybubblewrap]

jean m twenge? more like jean m cringe 💀💀💀

[@_suki_]

👌👌

[@kylewheeler7170]

they should be called the WIFI'ers

[@tlizzle8344]

love that for us

[@lengendary8412]

Ok boomer

[@selymesiantal8109]

szar video xddd

[@David_Me825]

4th