Your examples are decades old. People have been worrying about technology spoiling their children since we've had writing. Are you arguing you were ruined by TVs and computers growing up? Or satanic music?
The difference is that those other technologies weren't fine tuned to individuals to literally short-circuit their brains to get the most perfect amount of dopamine at the right time to keep them addicted.
People aren't getting addicted as a side-effect. Addiction is the primary-effect of the way the companies have designed these experiences, and addition (or the more harmless term "customer engagement") is a direct measure of success at these companies.
So the analogy breaks down pretty quickly.
They're more like Slot machines, which are highly regulated and age-gated.
Are you arguing that TVs and computers are not capable of ruining lives? There are a legion of washed up WoW addicts that would indicate they can, to name one example
Instagram's Tik Tok rip off, Youtube's Tik Tok rip off, the original to some extent etc are way worse than whatever we grew up with.
At least I believe so. It is just a gut feeling though.
Like, it is poison due to the manipulative algorithmic feeds, or something. Like how Facebook turned into a genocide enabler in 2013 something when they added their crappy non chronological feed.
The format in it self is probably OK, as in, short amusing videos.
