I've written before about the dangers of social media to our mental and spiritual well-being. (You can find this here, and here.) I decided early on to avoid Instagram and Ticktock, and these days limit my engagement with Facebook, and hardly ever engage with Twitter. This is for purely selfish reasons ... I find that the less I engage, the happier I am.

But these apps are not all bad, of course, and some of us find them useful. I am periodically challenged, as a Christian leader, to engage with people on social media, rather than abandoning the space altogether. So I have mixed feelings.

This video articulates the problems pretty well, and also gives some ideas for what to do (spoiler alert: don't look to government legislation to fix this problem).

If you have young kids, do whatever it takes to keep them away from social media as long as you can, and then limit their engagement on it as much as you can. I know this is easier said than done, but this is one of the reasons why it's hard to be a parent these days.

One of the commenters on the video says this -- and I completely agree: "Humans are not made to exist in such large social groups; until recently we existed in relatively small local settings. For all of human history it has been like this, and then all of a sudden the entire world is open to every single person. No wonder we're all messed up in the head."