{"id":5129,"date":"2024-03-20T04:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/social-media-is-like-driving-with-no-speed-limits-the-us-surgeon-general-fighting-for-youngsters-happiness-4\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T04:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:05:48","slug":"social-media-is-like-driving-with-no-speed-limits-the-us-surgeon-general-fighting-for-youngsters-happiness-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/social-media-is-like-driving-with-no-speed-limits-the-us-surgeon-general-fighting-for-youngsters-happiness-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Social media is like driving with no speed limits\u2019: the US surgeon general fighting for youngsters\u2019 happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Vivek Murthy is urging governments to regulate social media as study shows screen use and isolation has caused widespread discontent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/mar\/20\/young-people-becoming-less-happy-than-older-generations-research-shows\">Youngsters suffering \u2018equivalent of midlife crisis\u2019<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/mar\/20\/you-have-to-stand-out-six-dagenham-teenagers-on-their-future-prospects\">Six Dagenham teenagers on their future prospects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the hush that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/29\/us-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-loneliness-mental-health-epidemic-social-media\">worried the US\u2019s top doctor<\/a> as he toured the country\u2019s university campuses last year.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vivek Murthy went to places including Duke, University of Texas and Arizona State, but so many youngsters were plugged into earphones and gazing into laptops and phones that it was incredibly quiet in the communal areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/audio\/2023\/oct\/06\/us-surgeon-general-on-why-loneliness-threatens-democracy-podcast\">Where was the loud chatter <\/a>Murthy remembered from his college days?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/mar\/20\/vivek-murthy-us-surgeon-general-social-media-youth-happiness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Vivek Murthy is urging governments to regulate social media as study shows screen use and isolation has caused widespread discontent Youngsters suffering \u2018equivalent of midlife crisis\u2019Six Dagenham teenagers on their future prospects It was the hush that worried the US\u2019s top doctor as he toured the country\u2019s university campuses last year. Dr Vivek Murthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}