You're being downvoted, but studies suggest your intuition is correct. People engage with social media at least in part out of social urges. However, consumpti

You're being downvoted, but studies suggest your intuition is correct. People engage with social media at least in part out of social urges. However, consumption of social media leads to increased feelings of loneliness: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-a-steady-diet-of-social-media-unhealthy-2018122115600 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-a-steady-diet-of-soci... So, social media is indeed a diet that just makes one hungrier. But does loneliness lead to more aggressive / "bullying" behavior? This hasn't been well studied, but evidence suggests this is the case: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/malamuth/pdf/85jspr2.pdf http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/malamuth/pdf/85jspr2.pdf