{"id":22265,"date":"2026-06-17T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22265"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:09:06","slug":"liked-we-ran-a-huge-social-experiment-on-a-whole-generation-it-turned-out-to-be-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/liked-we-ran-a-huge-social-experiment-on-a-whole-generation-it-turned-out-to-be-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Liked: We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be Terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-indieblocks-like\"><div class=\"u-like-of h-cite\"><p><i>Likes <a class=\"u-url p-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pootlepress.com\/2026\/06\/we-ran-a-huge-social-experiment-on-a-whole-generation-it-turned-out-to-be-terrible\/\">We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be Terrible | Pootlepress<\/a> by <span class=\"p-author\">Jamie Marsland<\/span>.<\/i><\/p><\/div><div class=\"e-content\">\n<p>Like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWait. You knew it was damaging mental health, sleep, attention and social development, and your response was\u2026 to give younger children even more access?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we will say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, yes. But everyone else was doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> A clear succinct run over social media &amp; the young. Personally I think there might be something in making the vendors made efforts to fix social media  but at least there seems to be some movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like: \u201cWait. You knew it was damaging mental health, sleep, attention and social development, and your response was\u2026 to give younger children even more access?\u201d And we will say: \u201cWell, yes. But everyone else was doing it.\u201d A clear succinct run over social media &amp; the young. Personally I think there might be something in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[953],"tags":[2104,582],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-22265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-jamie-marsland","8":"tag-social-media","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5N7","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22266,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22265\/revisions\/22266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22265"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}