Everything you need to know about life can be learned from Star Trek
I remember a Star Trek TNG episode called "The Game" where the entire crew were not doing their jobs because they were playing an addicting video game which was threatening to kill everyone as their ship's life support systems were going untended becase 'the game' was essentially a computer worm which was shutting everything down
Even with everyone knowing what was happening, nobody wanted to stop with the pleasurable game. Kids today (and in that group are many 'adults') are so intent on being 'accepted' by their virtual friends who really do not care about them in the least that they will do anything to be 'popular'- it is the only value they have in life. Unlike Star Trek there's no simple fix to be had by getting the bad parts out of the computers because that's not the problem here. The problem is outside of the systems- the problem is us- so to fix it we must change.
Same as how I feel about driving licenses needing to be restricted to only those who can and will drive properly, the same applies to smart phones. It's all only going to get worse until at some point all our own 'life support systems" like food production and manufacturing of necessary goods begins failing and people begin dying because of there not being anyone wanting to dedicate themselves to those jobs as there are more pleasant things to do right there in their hands. The problem is that like this Covid-19 virus everyone gets affected, good and bad, rich and poor, everyone. The only solution is to universally restrict everyone's everything to only those things which they can and do handle well, which is going to take away something of some kind we like and don't want to be without from every one of us
It's an unpalatable solution so it's not going to happen until there is absolutely no other choice available, and it will most certainly get down to that level sooner or later; it has to
Phil