Social Media: Beneficial or Harmful While Driving?

Drivers nowadays must be extremely careful, especially because of the negative implications of technology and social media while driving. The influence technology has on the younger generation is very large, since many were raised in a manner to depend on these devices for various reasons, such as letting your parents know when to pick you up or calling an ambulance if there is an emergency.  Even though many of these reasons are valid, the rise of intrusive advertisements and addictive applications cause the users  to become overwhelmingly reliant on these apps as they can slowly consume one's entire day. These applications and advertisements can become mainly targeted towards teenagers, since they manage to spend lots of time on phones and computers, and even more so due to the pandemic that is currently happening. As teenagers nowadays spend most of their time consuming social media, this can cause distractions while driving, which  can lead to injuries or even death. One possible solution to this problem is by having a developer create an application, which uses the phone's location to implement motion tracking, where if the phone moves above a certain speed, the app would warn the user or even close out Instagram or Snapchat (or any application, depending on what the user chooses to block) before ensuring that they are in a relatively safe environment to continue using it. If a passenger wants to use a specific app while in a car, there should be a procedure to make sure that they are not the ones driving, perhaps by using the installed app on the driver's device to create a code that will be scanned by the passenger. Once both people have verified that they aren't in a car, the apps would go back to normal and there would not be any restrictions. This solution seems very likely to work, although it might not be very realistic since many teenagers may not want to download it for its restrictive purposes (as their "freedom" could be limited by this software) and that programming such a thing would take a long time to implement, design and polish and might not be that appealing to the targeted audience, teenagers.  Another method to try and cut down on these dangerous habits is to simply take notice of them and try to cut down on them. This method, compared to the one above, is far quicker, easier to implement and more universal, although it might take some time to get used to. By taking note of how long you use your devices, people can notice how much time they waste while mindlessly scrolling through Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and other apps. After noticing this amount of time, people then can use software designed to limit the amount of time spent on these addicting applications, or completely block them altogether during a configurable time period. Over time, they will become less dependent on social media, and most likely would become more productive and better off. The only caveat about this solution is that people may not fully manage to break these habits, or may end up reverting back to these habits after a while. In order to fix that, those people should spend more time focusing on why they managed to come back to their problem again.