Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "Zuckerberg is right: There is insufficient scientific evidence that social media harms mental health" video.

This is likely to be another case of "correlation is not causation". Troubled kids are more attracted to hiding in their phones. In the 1980s we had a similar hype about the supposed link between suicides and heavy metal (lyrics). It faded away. So will this.
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@ritikadhami867 I don't think it is necessarily a waste of time. Every generation says this about the prior one when they do things they never did. People learn a lot from social media. You may argue they learn "all the wrong things", that is no different from having "bad friends". Just like in the physical world they will have to learn to tell value from junk anyway.
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