Anxious Generation: Book Review
Book Title: Anxious Generation Book Author: Jonathan Haidt I started high school around 2010 in a military-run boarding school in Bangladesh. It was a girls' school. We were kept out of communication devices, so no phone was allowed. We used to write letters to our parents, which they would receive much later, sometime not altogether—it was no longer an era of mail communication. Parents and children preferred communication via phone calls. We were allowed to call our parents via some dedicated phones once a week under teacher’s supervision. There were so many things about cadet college that seemed like irony to me, but the thing that came to my mind while reading this book is—how awful, lonely, left out I felt when rest of my classmates started using smartphones, keeping them in hidden places and I did not have a clue or guidance on how to cope with my peers whose attention was hijacked by flashy rectangles which connected them to the boys of other cadet colleges, or to the globe,...
