It's not entirely honest that we argue about 'times the teenager has sex decreasing' and 'collapsing birth rates' being a problem when most parents and society itself heavily discourage their teenagers having sex and/or creating offspring.
Also, I'm not arguing in favour of Social Media here. I just have seen enough moral panics in my years to have become allergic to them. For instance, I'm still waiting for evidence that computer games increase violence in real life, and how comics rot kids' brains.
Strong arguments demand strong empirical evidence. "Well-being" is not, in fact, a good metric (unless we apply it to other aspects of modern life). In fact, the very idea that wellbeing should be a concern in policy is dystopic: Remember that one of the reasons books are banned in "Fahrenheit 451" is that they made readers unhappy.
The teenage sex complaint is coming from socially conservative people, the ones that also simultaneously create as punishing conditions for young single moms and blame them for host of social issues. They are not complaining that teenagers are not being pregnant enough.
They are complaining that young males are not having easy one night stands. They also dont like that girls are empowered to say no. In their minds, the dynamic is all wrong when a young man is not complete pressuring jerk and she can say no.
They dont care about underclass of 16 years old with a life destroyed and a baby.
Also, I'm not arguing in favour of Social Media here. I just have seen enough moral panics in my years to have become allergic to them. For instance, I'm still waiting for evidence that computer games increase violence in real life, and how comics rot kids' brains.
Strong arguments demand strong empirical evidence. "Well-being" is not, in fact, a good metric (unless we apply it to other aspects of modern life). In fact, the very idea that wellbeing should be a concern in policy is dystopic: Remember that one of the reasons books are banned in "Fahrenheit 451" is that they made readers unhappy.