Apps on your tiny computer are engineered to get you hooked. The time that you spend on it is time that you cannot spend making and cultivating face-to-face fri

Apps on your tiny computer are engineered to get you hooked. The time that you spend on it is time that you cannot spend making and cultivating face-to-face friendships. As far as I can tell, friendships are necessary for mental health. So those apps have a negative effect on your mental health. In principle, they could also have a positive effect that counterbalances the negative. But in my personal experience, that's dubious.