Social media causes a lack of social interaction in teenagers?

[jac the hat]

Yes absolutely not only in teenagers,also in the population at large, but teens are always going to be pretty much the best overall at the technology. Anyone on a phone publicly is so focussed they are totally unaware of their surroundings, they are usually shouting into it - if they are walking they will suddenly stop or start walking erratically with no concept of anyone else sharing the pavement -Bullying is rife so they get a completely distorted view of communications as most of us are able to leave the playground behind. I swear someone on a train could take a heart attack and no one would notice . The problem seems to be that they are addictive and so much easier on the whole from real life - So in your pocket you have a magic pill against loneliness or any of the other character building life events- Its like white noise - background fuzz, tippling on alcohol - it takes away the pain but gives us no real life challenges