It goes much further - social media is the new bread for the poor, rich folks travel, do expensive dining and adventuring and similar. Sure, its highly addictiv

It goes much further - social media is the new bread for the poor, rich folks travel, do expensive dining and adventuring and similar. Sure, its highly addictive due to short dopamine hits so even rich are not immune to it, but most rich / upper middle class I ever saw are smart enough and well off enough to stay the hell away from it. Also, article makes it like that's almost an unique behavior, while where we live (Switzerland), its more like default of good parenting, definitely a majority of our peers do it similarly. Doctors went through cancelling their FB accounts, we know number around us (wife is a doctor so I mean tens of various doctors mostly with smaller kids). Instagram was never a thing for them, neither for us. Raising their kids without digital screens either altogether or in a minimal fashion, till teenage years. It gets harder for parents, but anybody can see how much additional quality this brings into parenting. But this goes with the example parents set - if they are half-present and glued to screens themselves, don't expect miracles from those poor kids which imitate everything they see, and are very vulnerable to addictive behavioral patterns. When I compare such parenting with allowing screens almost infinitely due to laziness/exhaustion of parents, its heartbreaking how kids often end up later in life.