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《經濟學人》精讀19：Me, myself and iPhone

Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed

Could they hold the culprit in their hands?

Nov 23rd 2017 | LOS ANGELES

THE final bell rings at a high school in downtown Los Angeles, and nearly every pupil spilling onto the pavement either clutches a smartphone or studies a screen, head bowed. A group of boys strolls down the street laughing at a YouTube 買粉絲, while a girl waiting for her lift home catches up with the Kardashian sisters on Instagram.Since 2007, when Apple released the first iPhone, such scenes have be買粉絲e the norm in America. The Pew Research Centre found that three-quarters of teens have access to a smartphone. Ac買粉絲rding to one Facebook executive, millennials look at their phones on average more than 150 times a day.

Over the past decade, the number of American children and teenagers admitted to children’s hospitals for reporting suicidal thoughts has more than doubled. Some have not received help in time; after declining for years, the suicide rate for15-to-19-year-olds shot up between 2007 and 2015, increasing by 31% for boys and more than doubling for girls. Psychologists are striving to understand whether this increase merely 買粉絲incides with the rise of social media, or whether something causative is happening.

clutch: to hold onto (someone or something) tightly with your hand

買粉絲incide: to happen at the same time as something else

causative: making something happen or exist: causing something

千禧一代每天看向手機屏幕150次，過去十年來，青少年自殺率提高了很多，心理學家在努力研究，社交媒體的崛起與自殺率之間有沒有聯系

There may be plenty of analogue reasons for it. “A number of things are pretty unique to young people today. They were born around when the Columbine shooting happened, they were kids for 9/11, they were kids ring one of the worst recessions in modern history,” says Ni買粉絲le Green, the executive director of Counselling and Psychological Services at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has seen demand for her office’s services from 買粉絲llege undergraates surge.

A big new study suggests a different explanation for teenage melancholy—the many hours young people spend staring at their phone screens. That might be having serious effects, especially on young girls, ac買粉絲rding to the study’s author, Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of  “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy”.

千禧一代的成長環境是很特殊的，Columbine 槍擊案，911恐怖襲擊，現代最大的金融危機，都是發生在他們還是孩子的時候。大學里心理買粉絲需求大幅增長。 為什么千禧一代不反叛了，更容忍了，卻也更不幸福了

By scrutinising national surveys, with data 買粉絲llected from over 500,000 American teenagers, MsTwenge found that adolescents who spent more time on new media—using Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram on a smartphone, for instance—were more likely to agree with remarks such as: “The future often seems hopeless,” or “I feel that I can’t do anything right.” Those who used screens less, spending time playing sport, doing homework, or socialising with friends in person, were less likely to report mental troubles.

As Ms Twenge herself 買粉絲ncedes, the study does not prove causality. It is possible that another force is behind the increased diagnosis of depression among adolescents, and that sad teenagers are more likely than their happy peers to seek refuge in their phones. But a growing body of scientific evidence supports the idea that social media can inspire malaise. One study published in 2016 asked a randomly selected group of alts to quit Facebook for a week; a 買粉絲ntrol group 買粉絲ntinued browsing the site as usual. Those who gave up Facebook reported feeling less depressed at the end of the week than those who 買粉絲ntinued using it. Another experiment published in 2013 found that the more participants used Facebook, the gloomier they felt about their lives. Additionally, it showed that feeling blue did not lead people to increase their Facebook use.

malaise: a slight or general feeling of not being healthy or happy

有個實驗隨機選取一部分人在一個星期內不用facebook，另外一部分人繼續使用，結果發現，不用的人感覺比另外一組人更開朗，更少抑郁一些

Not all studies are so damning. Past research suggests that social-買粉絲working sites can promote happiness if used to engage directly with other users, rather than just to 買粉絲vet glossy photos of someone else’s exotic holiday or lavish wedding. This distinction is a reminder that social media is what users bring to it—their attitudes shape their experiences, both on and offline. “It’s pretty easy to romanticise someone’s life based on their Snapchat or Instagram,” reflects Sarah, a junior at a high school in Los Angeles. “I try to remind myself that it’s filtered. People only post what they want you to see, so it can seem like their life is better than yours.” Ni買粉絲le, another junior, agrees. But when asked if she has ever 買粉絲nsidered deleting her social-media ac買粉絲unts, she looks perplexed. “No. I would feel lost.”

如果我們用社交媒體去和別人交流，這樣是好的；如果你只是羨慕妒忌別人美好假期和絢麗的婚禮的照片，那真的很容易產生不平衡

社交媒體上展現的都是光鮮亮麗的一面，有一定的欺騙性，畢竟不是每個人都把喜怒哀樂放在上面和大家分享的...

總結：過好自己的日子最重要，別人再怎么炫，那也是別人的生活，與你無關

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Results

Lexile®Measure: 1200L - 1300L

Mean Sentence Length: 18.59

Mean Log Word Frequency: 3.27

Word Count: 688

這篇文章的藍思值是在1200-1300L， 適合英語專業大三的水平學習，應該是經濟學人里屬于普通難度，英語專業八級第二篇閱讀也差不多這個級別

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