Thank you for posting what I’ve been thinking about for a few years now. At first I blamed it on the pandemic lock down but I now feel it is social media driving the insanity. I wish I had THE answer.

Maybe if we could start with the next generation and teach “human” interaction vs “technology” interaction. Social Groups vs Social Media. Limit children’s phone to making voice calls only. Require adult supervision of computer time.

I remember saying to my parents “I’m bored”. The response was always “go see what is boring your friends today”. Some how being bored together was emotionally satisfying. AND G-D help us if we got ourselves into trouble, and the definition of trouble was our parents. We knew the police in town and more importantly they knew us. We were always greeted with “hello boys staying out of trouble, do your parents know what you’re up to?”