This dopamine-fueled obsession with our phones can't go on.

Something’s gotta give.

Social media anxiety disorder is a real thing. And with the isolation created by the pandemic, it can only have gotten worse since these numbers came out in 2019.

The changes reported in this post were not found in adults 26 years and over. We have to find a way to teach balance and time away from digital media. As of 2020, the average social media usage is 145 minutes per day.

Interviews with almost 10,000 teens ages 13 to 16 published in the medical journal the Lancet suggest it’s the exposure to cyberbullying that’s the real issue, as well as the way social networking wreaks havoc on sleep and exercise habits.

This can’t go on, this dopamine-fueled obsession with our phones. It is wrecking lives. Who should take responsibility? How does it change?