Social media can drain generative drive by captivating attention.

“But there's a kind of passivity and draining out of the generative drive or competing out of the generative drive because of social media. And the reason I bring this up is, again, not because I dislike social media. I rely on and use social media for teaching and learning extensively. Really. But in going back to the pillars that underlie whether or not we achieve and experience agency, gratitude, peace, contentment, and delight within the pillar of function of self. There's this thing, salience, and what we're paying attention to, internal and external. And social media does seem to me a unique circumstance, never before observed in human evolution, where you have a near infinite number of environments available to you.”