Facebook has over 2.3 billion users/followers and that is bigger then any religion on this planet.

Social media users worldwide:

Smoking vs Social Media

Now if you look at our last hundred years it is only recently that we found out that smoking is unhealthy and then it took even longer for the people to actually understand it as well and to quit or not start. Then the regulators saw all the health issues and costs involved. And that was a real catalyst for the governments to start ignoring the lobbyists of big tobacco. I do not truly believe that governments as institutions really cared about the health issues as such, they took a look at the bottom line and saw that tobacco related illness and disease was costing them more then it was bringing in in taxes.
Only then did we see campaigns starting to prevent smoking and measure being put in place to scare people off.
This seems to be paying off. The combination of the will of the public and the realisation that health cost is a true priority.

calculating the price of social media addiction:

The next thing that is now in the spotlight of these same regulators is the fact that Facebook and Co are addictive and monopolistic. The cost on society was not known before but there is more and more research being done and it shows that a whole generation is growing up addicted to social media.
These companies market themselves as free but in truth the users pay with their data. This is something that has become common knowledge over the last few years. The only thing these users do not understand is how much their data is worth.
In all honesty I still have a FB account, I cannot seem to bring myself to deleting it even though I have not used it in ages. I have deleted the app from my phone and only go through the browser anymore.

So if you do want to use social media, a network like Steem is better. Your data is not being sold, everything is decentralised and not owned by one company that has to make billions in profit for the shareholders. With steem we, the users, are the shareholders and you can even earn a bit whilst using it the way you would other social media.

If you do not hold a steem account then please read this post with the 7 good reasons to join up

I personally do not see that the digitalisation is something bad as such and neither does the author of the book mentioned below written by Roger Mcnamee

The special thing about this man is that he was a Venture capitalist who was an early investor in FB and even mentor to Zuckerberg. It gives an inside view.

article inspired by a book from Roger McNamee: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
You can also get the short summary here for 3.99

Is social media like tobacco?
should it be looked into?
should it be regulated?