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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 2d

By me and @iyerland.bsky.social: Australia's new age-limit law for social media does NOT ban content—it delays account creation. Kids & teachers can still use YouTube as much as they want, just w/o algorithms for the kids.

We explain on my Substack, After Babel:
www.afterbabel.com/p/australia-...

Australia’s Social Media Age Limit Policy Delays Account Creation, Not Access to Content

The policy has been widely mischaracterized

www.afterbabel.com

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Corey Nathan @coreysnathan.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty cool to get a shout out from one of my intellectual, sociological heroes @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social re: Our recent talk about @heterodoxacademy.bsky.social

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 4d

Fabulous new TED talk from Lenore Skenazy. She shows that the cure for rising anxiety among kids and rising anxiety among parents is the same: Let kids develop competence through independence, and through (device-free) unsupervised play, as they used to. youtu.be/whaesnYloMQ?...

Why You Should Spend Less Time with Your Kids | Lenore Skenazy | TED

YouTube video by TED

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Margaret Gabriel @magand65.bsky.social · 7d

From @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social on Threads. Let's join the kids & delete one.

📵🤸‍♀️🌳 “Time to Refuse” will kick off right here in NYC on World Mental Health Day, October 10th, 2025 at 6pm EST in Tompkins Square Park. Come delete one account of your choosing, at 7pm. Join the campaign: timetorefuse.com

TIME TO REFUSE - Join the Mass Deletion Movement

Join thousands of Gen Z refusing to be products. Mass deletion event October 10, 2025. Reclaim your life from social media and addictive technology.

timetorefuse.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 5d

A wonderful feature in the NYT about the Reconnect movement, led by Gen Zer Seán Killingsoworth. (Come meet Seán at our event on Oct 10, see prev post!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Can College Students Stand to Ditch Their Phones for an Hour or So?

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 7d

Join us in NYC on October 10th:

📵🤸‍♀️🌳 “Time to Refuse” will kick off right here in NYC on World Mental Health Day, October 10th, 2025 at 6pm EST in Tompkins Square Park. Come delete one account of your choosing, at 7pm. Join the campaign: timetorefuse.com

TIME TO REFUSE - Join the Mass Deletion Movement

Join thousands of Gen Z refusing to be products. Mass deletion event October 10, 2025. Reclaim your life from social media and addictive technology.

timetorefuse.com

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Jeff Opperman @jjopperman.bsky.social · 12d

My new op-ed on how we need a "great rewilding" of childhood to counteract the "great rewiring of childhood" described in Anxious Generation @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social

Screen shot of print page in comments if can't access link www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...

Reverse the great rewiring of childhood with a great rewilding of childhood: Jeff Opperman

Across all neighborhoods, relinquishing parental control remains a challenge, but can be accomplished most effectively through collective action — parents, neighborhoods, and schools working together ...

www.cleveland.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 9d

A funny take on adapting to #phonefreeschools, from the Frisch School in NJ

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 12d

Chart from "The Anxious Generation." How do we reverse this? We get young people to stop spending 5-9 hours a day on social media and video games, and we get them back to real life.

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 12d

Two Gen Z orgs—Appstinence and the Reconnect Movement—are leading a mass exodus from social media.

📵🤸‍♀️🌳 “Time to Refuse” starts in NYC on World Mental Health Day, October 10th, 2025 at 6pm EST in Tompkins Square Park. Come delete one account of your choosing, at 7pm. More at timetorefuse.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 13d

What happens when we give kids a smartphone — we ask the impossible. A wonderful PSA by Smartphone-Free Childhood US.

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 14d

Californians fought all year for two bills that will help keep kids safe online. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, I hope you'll sign them to hold big tech accountable:

AB1064 protects kids from unsafe AI companions and

AB56 requires warning labels on addictive social media platforms.

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 15d

On "Today with Jenna and Friends" about the benefits of #phonefreeschools www.today.com/video/jonath...

Jonathan Haidt on Why Parents Should Delay Screen Use in Kids

Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation,” joins TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Ayesha Curry to discuss why delaying children’s use of screens is important...

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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · Aug 26

𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 by @sturkle.bsky.social is among my top book recommendations when it comes to technology. Grateful to @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social for giving her space to share the preface of the updated edition. Her work is even more important today.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Reclaiming Conversation in the Age of AI

Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection

open.substack.com

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Sherry Turkle @sturkle.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’m so pleased for the publication of the tenth anniversary edition of Reclaiming Conversation, with my new introduction, a warning about our new love affair with artificial intimacy. And so pleased that @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social’s blog, After Babel, has published the new introduction.

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · Sep 2

One of the only policies Dems & Republicans agree on:

Banning phones in classrooms.

39 states now have some sort of phone restrictions, & the other 11 have legislation pending.

@jonathanhaidt.bsky.social’s “The Anxious Generation” catalyzed the movement, Jonathan Martin reports in @politico.com.

There’s Only One True Bipartisan Issue Left

Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” has prompted an unlikely bipartisan revolution to ban phones in classrooms.

www.politico.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you!

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Amy Julia Becker @amyjuliabecker.bsky.social · 18d

I’m always up for listening to @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social and @drmoore.bsky.social talk about the differences between social media use and phone use in general, and this conversation doesn’t disappoint.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Jonathan Haidt’s Newest Thoughts on Technology, Anxiety, and the War for Our Attention

Podcast Episode · The Russell Moore Show · 09/10/2025 · 45m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

The latest map of phone policies by state, as the school year starts. Red is best (full day); Orange is class-time only, which is much less effective. Gold is that local schools must develop a policy, any policy. apnews.com/article/scho...

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Aug 25

Reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study finds. Replaced by ... screens. abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...

Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

abcnews.go.com

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Aug 21

My thanks to everyone who has bought & gifted the book — we are amid an international cultural shift on the topic of kids & touch-screen devices. Parents are fed up, schools are fed up, even kids are fed up (see previous post).

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-aust...

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · Aug 21

A major essay on what teens think abt social media, in The Australian.

All these quotes from teens abt how locked-in they are into social media underscore the need for collective action. Parents, please consider delaying smartphones & social media. It’s easier if you band together w/ other parents.

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richardreeves.bsky.social @richardreeves.bsky.social · Jul 17

I don't think this fact is well known enough: The growth in male suicide rates since 2010 has been among YOUNG men, in contrast to the previous decade when it was middle-aged men cc @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social @twenge.bsky.social aibm.org/research/mal...

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richardreeves.bsky.social @richardreeves.bsky.social · Jul 19

My latest newsletter: Obama on the male malaise - 8 takeaways. As he says: "We haven't been as willing to be intentional about investing in the boys. And that's been a mistake." Yes it has. But one that is slowly being corrected. We rise together.
ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/obama-on-t...

Obama on the male malaise: 8 takeaways

Why he thinks it is time to focus more on boys and men

ofboysandmen.substack.com

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