By : Jonathan Haidt Source: The Atlantic Social media gets blamed for many of America’s ills, including the polarization of our politics and the erosion of truth itself. But proving that harms have occurred to all of society is hard. Far easier to show is the damage to a specific class of people: adolescent girls, whose rates of depression, anxiety, and self-injury surged in the early 2010s, as social-media platforms proliferated and expanded. Much more than for boys, adolescence typically heightens girls’ self-consciousness...
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By : Cole Delbyck Source : Huffington Post  Rumor has it that all this time people have been listening to albums out of order the first time around. But the shuffle stops with Adele, as the singer single-handedly changed the way streaming giant Spotify dictates how users listen to music. Following the release of her album “30” on Friday, the company removed its default shuffle setting at her urging and will now automatically play tracks in the order they appear on the album. “This was the only request I had in our...
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