Computers pre-social media were different. You could do a lot offline. Today, social media has been proven to be extremely toxic. There was a paper submitted to HN that mentions how much worse mental health is the earlier a child gets a cell phone[1].

Today children have unrestricted access to God knows what is on the internet and social media. This is not a recipe for success. Parents need to get involved.

[1] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/sapien-smartphone-repor...