iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

by Jean M. Twenge

it’s just mostly dead. Or perhaps on life support. With smartphones taking up so much of teens’ time, there is little left for other leisure pursuits. As one teen put it in a Chronicle of Higher Education interview, “My dad is still into the whole book thing. He has not realized that the Internet kind of took the place of that.”