Digital Risk Using Social Media Is 'Like Driving On Roads With No Speed Limit'

It was the hush that worried the US's top doctor as he toured the country's university campuses last year. So many youngsters were plugged into earphones and gazing into laptops and phones that it was incredibly quiet in the communal areas.

- Robert Booth

Where was the loud chatter that Dr Vivek Murthy remembered from his college days? "Students said to me, 'how are we supposed to start a conversation?" the US surgeon general told the Guardian. "It's just not the culture any more to talk to one another. It's an indictment of the trends that we've seen." Figures out today reveal one possible impact of that screen obsession: for the first time since the data was first collected in 2012, people aged 15-24 in North America say they are less happy than older generations. The gap is closing in western European nations and this month