The examples mentioned in the article are geared towards exploiting certain innate desires of many humans. IG and Meta are not "static" constructs but continuou

The examples mentioned in the article are geared towards exploiting certain innate desires of many humans. IG and Meta are not "static" constructs but continuously updated services that want to maximise the time people spend with them. I don't think it is an indictment of society if teens, a group of people usually endowed with special legal and societal protection, use IG for highly detrimental social status comparisons. I wonder whether the author considered that there are people out there that are not yet fully aware of all the implications of social media usage. I don't want to paint these companies as the antichrist either, but they don't get a free pass from me---that is just absurd.