The world is melting, infrastructure is crumbling, facist regimes are on the rise, continuing education is more expensive than ever, there’s very few jobs that pay enough to even rent an apartment after college, let alone buy a home, and the queerest generation ever is seeing their identities legislated away by an increasingly out of touch oligarchy.

But sure… phones are why teenagers are depressed.

@twipped @bigzaphod yes, the article seems to me to say “they can’t be unhappy about these other things - average wealth is up!” And I can only wonder… have they looked at the mean?!? :(

There is a good point that phone use is correlated with the same curve, but you can explain that by realising it also then correlates to people having access to more information, not just MSM :(