The book, however, goes further, with a litany of all the different ways in which young women have been ruined. “We wasted our childhoods chasing something that does not exist.” “We forever damaged what little love we had for ourselves.” “We are vain and insecure.” Reading it, I agreed with many of its points, but I also felt myself bristle against the tone – one shared by many other commentators, such as Jonathan Haidt who, when thinking about young people, can only see the damage done by social media. This week’s case valuably highlights the damage social media can wreak on very young users – the plaintiff testified that she became addicted to YouTube at six and Instagram at nine. But India’s book paints all young people as passive participants of the world, and describes social media as a single great immoveable curse on my generation.