I think social media critics forget the days when everyone felt like they were wasting their life obsessively checking their email or refreshing the news. This has been there from the beginning. The only difference now is that we pretend there's someone to blame other than ourselves. As evidence, here's the history of Randall Monroe dealing with internet addiction in his comics.

https://xkcd.com/862/ https://xkcd.com/597/ https://xkcd.com/187/ https://xkcd.com/77/