Is IG making us distracted and less adept?

Rishabh [20 June 2022, 1:58 am] The full claim being: I feel that by being available as an always available and cognitively cheap escape, IG is enabling us to be more distracted than ever and is therefore also taking away from our ability/opportunities of grappling with our emotions and dealing with them.

There's no dearth of research on how addicted we are to our feed based apps and there is no shortage of anecdotal evidence either. Everywhere I see, everyone is always on their phones. I feel that having such a convenient escape allows you to ignore the pertinent thoughts from yoir head and lets you to lead an alternate life if seeing the world.