I'm irritated by the press blaming "social media" for teens & young adults being depressed.

Compared to all the other stresses people are facing these days social media has the most options for being controlled.

People are probably using social media so much because everything else sucks so bad.

I think many people might prefer in person socializing, but there's very few cheap places you can and hang out with others. (Especially for teens, but public space is rare for everyone)