Darnell, the 20-year-old college student in Georgia, explicitly connects iGen’ers’ smartphone use with their disinclination to see people in person. “The last generation always wants us to be in person, and a lot of us are not like that,” he says. “We’re more of a technology-based generation. Without my phone I literally would be lost. I have my calendar, I have my email, I’ve researched different things, I’m always reading about something.” Twenty-year-old James, a student at the same college, says it’s just easier to use social media instead of meet up in person. “It’s
