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To clarify: my point is, social media is way more prevalent than football head injuries. And yet there isn't really the same public health scandal around social media.

From a relevant study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044619/). GMV = Gray Matter Volume. Your brain, basically.

"This study investigated fronto-cingulate gray matter abnormalities in problematic smartphone users, particularly those who spend time on social networking platforms. [...]

Problematic smartphone users had significantly smaller GMV in the right lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) than healthy controls, and there were significant negative correlations between GMV in the right lateral OFC and the Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) score, including the SAPS tolerance subscale. [...]

These results suggest that lateral orbitofrontal gray matter abnormalities are implicated in problematic smartphone use, especially in social networking platform overuse."