I think the more likely truth is that people crave utility and compelling novelty. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. all either had/have usefulness that their p

I think the more likely truth is that people crave utility and compelling novelty. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. all either had/have usefulness that their predecessors lacked or packaged themselves in a novel way that was enjoyable. No one cares social media is unhealthy because most people realize that 'unhealthy' in this scenario is more akin to the impact of fashion magazines on young women than the way in which smoking is bad for you. Meanwhile Facebook groups and Facebook market are actually useful, Snapchat is handy for naughty convos, Instagram provided a more streamlined experience for people who actually cared about their wall on Facebook, and TikTok provided a less aggressively progressive video streaming service that offered tools to make content creation easy for Creators while providing Consumers with a wildly better recommendation algorithm than YouTube, mobile first design, and formatting requirements that ensured content is suited to the attention span of people on mobile.