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screen may take the place of paper. Nobody panics because people spend 60% of time on some form of paper media activity.
screen may take the place of an instrument. You can make music with that "electronic item".
Content matters. What you do with that screen is more important than how much time you spend with an "electronic item".
We made the outdoors a pay to play hellscape. Where do you want them to interact socially? This isn't directed at you despite what it says. It's directed at the part of the article you quoted.
Edit: I also wanted to add that social media just highlights and streamlines the problems with the way people socially interact and affect each other and it does so using algorithms to re-enforce dependency. I'm certainly not saying social media isn't addictive or harmful. But that these problems are exacerbated by social media and actually exist even in a world without it, just with a much shorter reach.