eicker.media ❖ social media#JonathanHaidt, a social psychologist, argues that #smartphones and #socialmedia are causing a @decline in #human #cognition, #happiness, and #competence: He highlights the negative impact on attention spans, education, and democracy, attributing these issues to the widespread adoption of technology and the influence of social media companies. https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
Personal tech, social media, and the “decline of humanity”
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the damage cellphones and social media are doing to our cognition and civic fabric, while calling for renewed action to ward off their effects, in the latest of MIT’s Compton Lectures.