It’s important for kids to hang out with other kids, so cutting off screen time is actively isolating, damaging in ways that are far more concrete than screen time.
What we’re seeing has less to do with screen time and more to do with the age-old problems of teen social lives.There are lots of healthy and social things you can do online, just like there are unhealthy and isolating things you can do offline.
It’s fine to worry about unhealthy spaces online, whether it’s eating-disorder culture on Instagram or incel sewers on Reddit — but the problem with those spaces is that they’re unhealthy, not that they’re online.