“Get Off Social Media,” Says the Surgeon General

Here’s how to do it

Paul Greenberg
4 min read2 days ago

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With the U.S. Surgeon General’s warning this week that “there is growing evidence that social media use is associated with harm to young people’s mental health,” we finally have official sanction to limit our children’s Instagram and TikTok accounts. While this warning was directed at adolescents, after spending two years researching a book on the…

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Paul Greenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org