I'm not a journalist, but I have thought carefully, and it's a CRISIS

@Noahpinion it's actually the internet, the phones just made it easily accessible and useful everywhere you go.

@Noahpinion sigh

@Noahpinion it's tinder. released in 2012, its sharp rise in populariy lines up exactly with that line.

@Noahpinion We should only be allowed to use social media on these

@Noahpinion Noah can’t draw an imaginary trend line.

I’m sure it was the phones in Ancient Rome too 🙄

https://www.vindolanda.com/blog/roman-women-and-children-part-1

@orntwo https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg14

@Noahpinion No, it's not.

@fantasticarg3 YES IT FUCKING IS

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg14

@Noahpinion Pretty sure it's the non-****ing phones?

@Noahpinion The graph kind of suggests that it's more broadly consumer internet (circa 2000) than phones... Flat before the, upward trend since. Acceleration as access became handheld, for sure.

@Noahpinion Is there a pithy statement that summarizes why the various graphs like the one linked here show a trend that doesn't seem to have changed in when smartphones became common?

@voxdotcom This is good news for the rest of species.

@lydiadepillis How much more careful thought do you want??? Do you think that there's some amount of careful thought that will eventually lead me to dismiss this crisis?

@Noahpinion We need to pause these phones and social medias for 6 months until we figure out what the hell is going on

@Noahpinion the crisis of exactly what the world needs.

@Noahpinion This video and pic is 9/11 for RW Whites

@Noahpinion What if you could only unlock extra phone time each week if you have relations with the opposite sex

@Noahpinion If you want your sex-life back, try a phoneless cord.

@Noahpinion seems like the jumping off point there is at the 2003-04 mark, or around the time DSL connections were widely available. IT'S THE INTERNET! lol