> Humans, including kids, are inherently social creatures, and are happiest when communing with their fellow creatures That may be generally true, but it doesn

> Humans, including kids, are inherently social creatures, and are happiest when communing with their fellow creatures That may be generally true, but it doesn’t imply that time alone is always bad, nor that all time “being social” is good. It’s certainly plausible that the explosion of access to social media has been a net negative and that spending some of that time alone would be better. Thinking back, the time I spent having sneaked to the school library during lunch break definitely felt healthier than the times I got caught by a teacher and sent back to “socially commune” with my tormentors, er, classmates.