Social media platforms are therefore the most efficient conformity
engines ever invented. They can shape an adolescent’s mental models of
acceptable behavior in a matter of hours, whereas parents can struggle
unsuccessfully for years to get their children to sit up straight or stop
whining. Parents don’t get to use the power of conformity bias, so they are
often no match for the socializing power of social media.
📚 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
🖋 Jonthan Haidth.
engines ever invented. They can shape an adolescent’s mental models of
acceptable behavior in a matter of hours, whereas parents can struggle
unsuccessfully for years to get their children to sit up straight or stop
whining. Parents don’t get to use the power of conformity bias, so they are
often no match for the socializing power of social media.
📚 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
🖋 Jonthan Haidth.