Maybe it isn’t social media that’s making teens depressed, after all

Here’s what the Covid-19 lockdowns have revealed about teen depression.

Nir Eyal
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readNov 18, 2020

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What do bicycles and social media have in common? Soon after being adopted, each of these technologies brought on a tsunami of unjustified moral panic.

Let’s start with bikes.

When bicycles burst onto the Victorian scene in the 1800s, they were a big deal. This cool contraption made it possible to travel much further and faster than you could ever…

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