I’m led to believe from my experience that social media and anxiety are two dark stars in a system spiraling into collapse. Social media causes anxiety; and anx

I’m led to believe from my experience that social media and anxiety are two dark stars in a system spiraling into collapse. Social media causes anxiety; and anxiety increases social media use because we’ve been conditioned to dissociate negative thoughts by looking down into our screens. Engaging in one initiates a self perpetuating loop. When I have no stress (on rare occasions I’m able to detach from my problems), my desire to use my phone at all is non-existent. So I think you are right that’s it’s difficult to attribute causality when kids are constantly under stress. This study, in fact, appears to only assess correlation. Haidt also strikes me as someone guided by a maverick worldview (he’s a serious thinker usually and I’ll read anything he writes)