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Wikipedia and YouTube can be huge timesinks as well, but hardly see much commentary as regards to FB and Instagram.

Reddit and hackernews too.

Frankly when I was a kid there were oldschool forums I'd frequent all the time.

I think this isn't a "kid" problem. I see just as many adults glued to their screens.

As adults however, we are old enough to decide for our self if we want to commit to bad habits. Kids are not attributed that judgment. There is a difference between restricting the diet of a child and restricting the diet of an adult.

Wikipedia is informative, at the very least. It's the same reason why you don't see an outcry about people spending time at the library.

Youtube can be informative as well, although the majority of it is not. I consider YouTube to be as much of a problem as FB/Instagram, with the caveat that it can, by design, have useful content (which the other two cannot).

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