The symptoms that many people are blaming social media for are those of dopamine deficiency or depression. This leads to them being more liable to addiction to decrease the too low levels of dopamine which originate from how boring life is becoming, and how detached people are from each other which is simply because of how many people are there in the world. This means that even in the absence of usage of social media, people will still be forced to be isolated from everybody else because there are just too many people to socialize with in your surrounding real life community or society. Meaningless life, insane boredom from lack of interesting stuff, the overwhelming increase in number of toxic people who feed on irritating other people that they can because it proves to themselves that they are right about not caring about anything and that they are better than all those who are more successful and more happy than they are in life, and the general increase in the number of people on planet earth (overpopulation or just the presence of too many members of the same species), increased complexity of life, how obstacles to just surviving in peace became countless, how pointless it became to try to solve normal problems that were easily solved in the past by the majority of people all around the world, how it became almost impossible to make any dream come true, how insignificant everybody has become except only a handful of people on earth, the massive uncertainty about the future (our ancestors simply planned stuff for centuries into the future and we are terrified whether or not humanity will still exist a few decades from now), the lack of purpose or the lack of anything that makes you feel that it deserves to be your purpose, and generally the belief that nothing there is in all space and time matters (the nihilistic world view), are among many reasons that explain the increase in apathy, hopelessness, helplessness, lack of concentration, loss of interest and motivation, symptoms of ADHD and the rest of the symptoms that are ascribed to Millennial people. These reasons lead to dopamine deficiency or depression that social media is mistakenly blamed for although social media is serving as a safety net that currently keeps people from hitting rock bottom.