This article has no substance. Its primary idea is that teens are moving away from social media, but lets look at how it actually backs that idea: So there's 5

This article has no substance. Its primary idea is that teens are moving away from social media, but lets look at how it actually backs that idea: So there's 5 anecdotes from 5 teenagers, all describing their dislike/disuse of social media. I don't know about you, but I think I could get 5 teenagers to back basically any claim I wanted with stories if I asked enough of them. I'm not saying that gathering opinions of the target audience is a bad thing, but just that 5 hand-selected samples out of an incredibly diverse group of people may not be entirely representative or meaningful. The only qualitative information presented here are the statistics, which I'll rattle off: 63% of British Schoolchildren in 2017 would be happy if social media was never invented according to a survey A survey of 9000 internet users found that in 2016, 66% said social media was important to them, but only 57% in 2018 58% of US teenagers had taken a break from one social media platform Facebook users aged 18-24 in Britain expected to fall 1.8% this year 41% of gen z teens said social media made them sad, anxious, or depressed I think it's entirely possible that there is a large trend among Gen Z of moving away from social media, but I don't think these statistics or anecdotes do a good job backing the claim up.