[joe_mamba]

>Social media and dating apps together have created this isolation.

Work with me here. If you ban all social media and dating apps tomorrow, will you suddenly cured loneliness? I 100% doubt it. This reductionist logic is more like Stalin having all sparrows killed to save the crops.

[wbl]

The causes of problems are not necessarily their solutions

[joe_mamba]

Both the cause and especially the solutions are way too complex to be summarized on HN comment in a few sentences but need an entire essay. Social media and dating apps are 10% tops of the issue. The issue has multiple layers developed over the decades.