No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

Article note: There certainly are unhealthy things about social media, but I think a LOT of the finger-pointing is the traditional, horrible, "Pointing at the things young people do to escape/work around the actual problems in their life as though the workarounds are the problems." We've done a _really through_ job of excluding young people from most public spaces with explicit policy (You'd get CPS called on you if you let your kids have as much autonomy as used to be normal), over-scheduling to meet dubious competitive pressures, and car-centric (sub)urban design. They are facing broadly diminished prospects in careers and home ownership relative to earlier cohorts, climate change is kicking into high gear, they had developmental years in the pandemic... and now there's an increasing mixture of rent-seeking and policing in the online spaces they gather in as a workaround.