After watching the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”, it became much more clear to me that social media has grown significantly since I was a kid. Students my age grew up with developing technology, while the students today grow up with it improving from an already advanced point. Although technology is super useful for connecting others and today in online learning, its overuse can cause mental, emotional and even physical harm once you become dependent and attached to it. Without interventions from media companies, it will become more and more difficult to detach from it.
I absolutely agree! One fact that stood out to me was how suicide rates have really skyrocketed since around 2014. This highlights your point about how much mental, emotional and even physical harm technology has caused. Something absolutely needs to be done about this.