This article is basically based on social media being an addiction for people. Being a massive distraction and a waste of time. The article mentions major social companies creating social content to make social media more addicting towards each individual that uses the social media platform. It also states that social networking is linked to a term called FOMO, which is fear of missing out. Many people have this problem causing them to be more addicted to social media.
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The article makes a good case for the addiction to social media being the result of deliberate engineering on the part of the companies that produce social media. And as you write, the article states that the end result is the waste of time. So the article does not state that social media is causing the end of western civilization. It is not catastrophic but that it is a distraction. So think about how to capture that tone in your image.
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