Compared to the sorts of things that destroyed earlier generations - the plague, say, or world war - social media already appears pretty benign. But even compared to nothing in particular, social media appears not to have been as bad as people thought. "The power of mindset serves as a reminder of the power of perspective. In the 1980s people were wringing their hands about the time kids spent staring mindlessly at television screens, says Gentzkow, who has studied that era. He imagines asking those worrywarts about new technologies that would allow kids to instead interact with one another by sharing messages, photographs and videos. 'Anybody then would have said, 'Wow, that would be amazing.''"
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