The 2020 Conference Opening Plenary Address "How Social Media Is Changing Social Networks, Group Dynamics, Democracies, and Gen Z" - Jonathan David Haidt, PhD at AGPA Connect 2020 in NYC.

Social media has changed many parameters of social life, in ways that are damaging teen
mental health. Heavy users of social media have twice the rate of depression and anxiety, and five published experiments indicate that the effect is at least partly causal: people who
stop or reduce social media experience gains in mental health. Dr. Haidt addressed what social media has done to Gen Z, the generation born beginning in 1996. Because social media changes networks, it has effects on most groups and organizations. The big challenge is to find ways to help groups and communities use social media in more healthy ways.

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