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by Llamamoe 353 days ago
Pop some terms into Google scholar and you'll find study after study after study both correlating social media use with worse mental health and demonstrating improvements from reducing use, in children and adults both.

It varies by demographic, but yeah, social media are pretty universally awful for humans, and that's not just conjecture.

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> correlating

That's the issue, and it is what you attempted to answer.

Causation is much harder to tease out from the noise.