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Unpaywalled reporting from a more international perspective at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/20/young-people-becoming-less-happy-than-older-gener
by CalRobert 3y ago
Unpaywalled reporting from a more international perspective at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/20/young-people-becoming-less-happy-than-older-generations-research-shows https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/20/young-people... .
There are several front-page stories about youth happiness on the guardian today.
This struck me:
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It was the hush that worried the US’s top doctor as he toured the country’s university campuses last year.
Dr Vivek Murthy went to places including Duke, University of Texas and Arizona State, but so many youngsters were plugged into earphones and gazing into laptops and phones that it was incredibly quiet in the communal areas. Where was the loud chatter Murthy remembered from his college days?
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from https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/20/vivek-murthy-us-surgeon-general-social-media-youth-happiness https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/20/vivek-murthy-u...
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- NeoTar 3y agoI'm not saying that I disagree, but this strikes me as a "Things are different from my youth and are therefore bad" style comment (on behalf of the article author, not the commentator).
- mr_world 3y agoAs a 20 something recent grad, he isn't wrong
- CalRobert 3y agoWell, there's two parts to that. Things are different, which I think is fair, and people are talking to each other less, which I guess is subjective but feels bad to me. I'm glad I went to college before smartphones existed, and Facebook really was just a place to put dumb photos from parties and poke each other.
- sva_ 3y agoDamn people work on their laptops while at university? That's crazy news Next he'll go into a library and find that people are silently staring into books