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The social media apps lined up on her smartphone \u2013 Facebook, Instagram, Twitter \u2013 and that is where the UMW senior often found herself, like so many others, whether by proximity or habit.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, Angel Cowen \u201818 compared her own life to the ones she saw on screen. She knew it was unhealthy and time-consuming, an unrealistic lens through which to see the world. She hadn\u2019t even seen some of the people she followed in years. But give it up?<\/p>\n

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After a reading assignment that suggested smartphones — and social media — were destroying a generation, several students decided to try to go without.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

A reading assignment in a theatre class that linked depression to smartphones inspired her and others to try.<\/p>\n

The article they read in an Ideas in Performance course had recently appeared in The Atlantic<\/a>, adapted from a book title as loaded as it was lengthy: iGen: Why Today\u2019s Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy\u2014and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood\u2014and What That Means for the Rest of Us.<\/em><\/p>\n

The author, who\u2019d been researching generational differences for 25 years, found that today\u2019s teens were more depressed, more likely to take their own lives and \u201con the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of that, the author wrote, \u201ccan be traced to their phones.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was more: Today\u2019s teens rarely spent face-time with friends because they were always connected online. Consequently, they were less likely to date, to drink, to have sex, to be crime victims. They were less likely to get their driver\u2019s licenses at 16. Why would they, when they weren\u2019t going anywhere?<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what are they doing with all that time?\u201d the author asked. \u201cThey are on their phone, in their room, alone and often distressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a Wednesday night, inside a duPont Hall classroom this spring, Theatre Department Chair Gregg Stull asked his students what they made of all that. He asked them why they thought he assigned it to them.<\/p>\n

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Theatre Department Chair Gregg Stull’s reading assignment asked whether smartphones were destroying a generation. Not everyone agreed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Most were in their early 20s, so-called cuspers \u2013\u00a0wedged between the millennial generation and the generation the author described. They could remember a life before social media. Some could remember when the Internet came to their houses for the first time, via dial-up.<\/p>\n

Cowen remembered that. She remembered wanting a MySpace account like her parents and older brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wanted to tell people what happened,\u201d Cowen said, \u201cI called my mom instead of posting on Facebook. It improved my connection with my family. I was happier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, adults her age are voracious users of social media \u2013 nearly nine in 10 18- to 29-year-olds use some form of it, according to a Pew Research Center survey<\/a> published this year. Adults in general are finding it harder and harder to live without. Just four years ago, 28 percent said social media would be tough to give up. Now that stands at 40 percent.<\/p>\n

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But some students weren\u2019t buying it. Every new thing since the beginning of time had supposedly ruined a generation, a handful of them said, and yet here we were.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all bad, not for everyone, including\u00a0Cindy Wang \u201918, a theatre major from Houston who said\u00a0social media nearly saved her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went through a traumatic experience. I didn\u2019t tell anyone for a really long time,\u201d she said. \u201cI spent a lot of time on the internet because I didn\u2019t know where to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was there that she read a story similar to her own \u2013 and watched the overwhelming support from social media pour in. Soon, Wang started sharing her experience with others online. That ultimately gave her the courage to reach out to her own family and friends.<\/p>\n

Claire Crusott \u201918 wound up on social media the moment she got bored. Or there was a lull in the conversation. Even with the person right in front of her.<\/p>\n

The Kentucky native hadn\u2019t thought much about it, until the reading assignment.<\/p>\n

Stull was on a trip to Italy when he realized how dependent he was on his smartphone. \u201cI lost reception,\u201d he told his students. \u201cMy whole life was right there\u201d in a useless rectangle of aluminum. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He came to realize the smartphone wasn\u2019t a bad thing, either.\u00a0But, Stull told them, \u201cfolks your age have higher levels of depression and anxiety. If indeed it is tied to this thing, you have to be critical of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crusott was ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t delete Facebook because I thought it was a terrible thing,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cIt was a recognition that if I was having dinner with people, I needed to be there with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

They reinstalled the social media apps on their smartphones. Cowen, Crusott and all the other students in the class inspired to try life without it. They had to, because their next assignment\u00a0\u2013 a research trip to New York \u2013 required them to use Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s different now, they all say.\u00a0They have become the critical consumers Stull hoped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took my birthday off Facebook because I didn\u2019t want 100 \u2018happy birthdays\u2019 from people who didn\u2019t talk to me the other 364 days a year,\u201d Cowen said. She also doesn\u2019t use it nearly as much.<\/p>\n

Still, she said, \u201cI think I was happier when I didn\u2019t use it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Olivia Whicheloe \u201919 reloaded Facebook and Instagram, the New Jersey native unfollowed everyone that didn\u2019t add something positive to her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI no longer dread going on Facebook,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Crusott jokes about the time she was waiting on a ride and reached for her phone \u2013 only to remember social media was no longer there waiting. For the first time in a long time, she watched people walking by. She took notice of the nice weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think,\u201d she said, recalling that day, \u201cthat I will take it off my phone again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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