It’s interesting because I was talking to my psychologist about this last week. Mental illness runs in my extended family specifically my best friend is a functional alcoholic. He grew up the son of a functional alcoholic. We all agree that alcoholism is an addiction, just like gambling, social media, etc. The problem is that as a society we are addressing the specific addiction. AA for alcoholics. For gambling the government has programs you can admit yourself to. What I was postulating to my psychologist is the real problem is some people have un underlying susceptibility to addiction. My experience with addicted people is regardless of good or bad if you remove an addiction they will replace with an unhealthy obsession on something else. Alcohol will be replaced with something else because the problem is the person has an imbalance they can’t do something in moderation. I’ve seen this time and time again. Plus factor in comorbidities like ADHD and you have a stew going. My point being, yes you’re correct tech is a problem, but it’s 100% the people too in some cases it’s just without the social media their addiction may have been benign so not visible. “Oh look at Mary with her beanie baby collection.” Or “oh look at Jack he really is a go getter running his 10k rain or shine every day.”