> They need places to hang around with other teenagers. That's what they used social media for.

Sure, that's a nice metaphor, but a picture-perfect version is one with predatory Ads everywhere, weird adults pretending they're kids asking them for intimate photos, bullies coming in and out calling them names and foreign agencies trying to radicalize their political views so they hate that immigrant kid or that somewhat flamboyant boy playing with them. Meanwhile their parents pretend they don't see the problem or actually don't see the problem because they don't care about them at all. And neither does their school – unless it's one of those that began to ban phones.