Those studies speak about social media addiction, smartphone addiction, and excessive phone use and not about having a phone. If you want to prevent the negati

Those studies speak about social media addiction, smartphone addiction, and excessive phone use and not about having a phone. If you want to prevent the negative effects of social media and (designed to be) addictive apps, then you should ban social media and addictive apps, and not phones (because that would just mask the symptoms).