It's not even really correlated. The timing is off. Teen Social Media usage exploded in the early to mid 2000s and all the bad trends started 2010 or later.

Plus, it was a seismic event. We went from little social media in 2000 to ubiquity by 2010. We should have seen one big rise to a new steady state not a continually increasing problem.

Social media definitely picked up 2000-2010, but the current manifestation of it didn't really lock in until ~2010 with the advent of the iPhone, instagram, snapchat, and all the other social media mobile apps that compelled people to constantly be sucked into it throughout the day rather than just whenever they were on or near a PC or laptop.

The graph here shows social media exploding from 2008, not before.

https://www.worldline.technology/post/over-2-5-billion-peopl...

This is showing all users worldwide. Surely US teens were ahead of the curve.

Exactly. By 2018 around 95% of teens used social media. We would thus expect the trends to have spiked more before then rather than after. Instead we see a linear trend.