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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  My rising senior has zero interest in instagram, tik tok, etc., but he love to watch TedEd videos on YouTube and uses discord for school clubs.  So, even for a kid who isn't interested in social media in the usual sense, he uses social media daily.  For a kid who is at least somewhat social, it would be impossible.  I should add that having a cellphone is expected in high school, not just by peers but by teachers who assign group projects or use Kahoot in class.[/quote]

+1 to this explanation above. YouTube is practically just another TV service now; whole shows appear only on YouTube, as well as things like the videos PP mentions. And some organizations require members to do things like join a Discord server or a Facebook group to get any information or schedules etc. And phones are now essential, especially for high schoolers, to use IN class.

I will add though that not all teens or young adults are interested in what I think of as "social media" -- Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. etc. My DD is a rising senior in college -- you read that right, college, not high school -- and has zero accounts on any of those or any other social media along those lines. She does have a Facebook account because her college required one for certain activities but she says she uses some generic landscape photo as the profile picture and posts nothing, but only goes on to read the information she needs (eh, Facebook's pretty old fasihioned now anyway....) DD says most of her closest friends are not on those kinds of social media either. They have certain apps, use things like Venmo etc., but do not want to put themselves out there tweeting, posting Instagram stories, doing silly TikTok videos etc. 
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