Hmm…I dont use social media, but i think i use my smartphone way too much. It is a way to numb difficult feelings and try to gain control over scary thoughts and escape loneliness. I can kind of see how it is related to anxiety and low agreeableness.
I think there should be help for it, but not superficially, it needs to deal with the “why”…otherwise some other escape tactic will simply take its place.
Smartphone (over)use is a problem with all people, as has been studied and shown time and again. This isn’t a sz problem…it’s a human problem. People searching for (nay, needing) that next hit of dopamine. Ditch this BS tech.
A lot of arguments could have been made against the relatively new and recently popularized technology of automobiles about 100 years ago. Even today, automobile use kills and injures a staggering number of people in the US.
I doubt we are going back to horses and buggies, short of some disaster like global thermonuclear war or an asteroid hit or something. I also doubt we are going back to a time of human minds not augmented with electronics constantly. An entire generation seems conditioned. We are probably moving forward to smartglasses.