Social media acts as a 24/7 junior high school experience, where kids born in 1995 and after are bathed in stress hormones during critical brain development (ages 11-13) and cannot sleep because they are anxious about social feedback.
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John HaidtEvidence Quote
“if you imagine 11-to-13-year-olds bathed in stress hormones and not sleeping year after year, yeah, suddenly when they show up in college in September of 2013, it's like from out of nowhere”
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:13:07 AM
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