[reererer]

Most kids are addicted to social media, and algorithms there are optimized to feed attention-grabbing garbage. At least in my country there's a clear link between smartphone use in classroom and worsening educational outcomes. We're also enjoying a surge in ADHD diagnosis of small children, as well as mental healt crisis among teenagers, which I suspect have a lot to do with excessive smartphone and social media usage.

I agree that lots of books are garbage too, but they still require some amount of focus and attention, which makes them much, much less bad for brain development than watching TikTok videos all day.