One thing to note is that rates of depression/suicide were much higher in the 1980s. If you look at the data over a longer time period, the 1990-2010 period sta

One thing to note is that rates of depression/suicide were much higher in the 1980s. If you look at the data over a longer time period, the 1990-2010 period stands out as being unusually low, and more recently we see an increase back to the 1970-1990 levels. Now I'm not saying that social media isn't a cause of this, but any theory should have some reasonable explanation for why rates were just as high in the 1980s as today.