We carry these phones around with us at all times of the day. It's almost akin to carrying a pill on you at all times with instant effects. Is the average person's psychology and will strong enough to resist this? What if they heavily used social media from 12-18 years old? What if they were an iPad kid? To basically run this Social Media Experiment on an entire generation might not be so wise but I guess we'll see. Hopefully we don't get an MBA study in 10 years finding that anyone born 2005-2015 is 20% less productive. Maybe AI will just fill that gap though haha so we might get bailed out if this would be the case.

I know that a significant amount of high schoolers "go to bed" at 11pm, then scroll until they pass out at 2am. Maybe we can have a law that makes social media companies restrict their own app usage after 12am in their local time. Is someone going to argue they want themselves or their kid to have the ability to sacrifice the next day (and their growth/health) for some late night scrolling?

Or perhaps a law that forces operating systems to restrict all social media consumption after a certain period. Limiting everyone (or just minors) to only a few hours of content consuming dopamine a day. Overall happiness and GDP might just go up haha and does anyone spend 4 hours scrolling and say that was time well spent?

Experiencing life and using/growing your brain is literally the opposite of using social media. Would Einstein have overcome social media to still do everything he did? Maybe he would have used it to his advantage.

There's also the problem of group think and conformity that really is a dangerous thing with social media comments paired with a society score (upvote count). That's another discussion altogether and very interesting to think about any effects from that. I like to remind myself that in 50 years it's this generation that will be running the world.