In the article,”Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, the author goes into detail about how and why smartphones are destorying generations. He points out that being born between 1995 and 2012 are the members of smartphone generation. It says most people in this age group,nickanmed iGen, don´t remember a time before smartphones. At younger ages kids are getting used to not socializing and just texting so they aren´t as social in person. This alot of times leads to cyberbulliyng. Which then leads to suicide. The article says suicide rates skyrocketed in 2011, and in 2017 survey showed out of over 5,000 teens 3 out of 4 owned a smartphone. This shows teens are more focused on smartphones and talking on the phone rather than talking in social
