The issue is that it is not the same, even if people have used social media for a long time to keep track of the activities of their friends and family the majority still preferred to engage directly with their fiend and family if given the opportunity, the fact they could not do so lead many people to try to find some kind of substitute and unfortunately many people fell victims of addictions because of it, precisely because they did not had the support of their families at this crucial time.
You got a point.
We have different love language, and those need physical touch or needs a presence by his side whenever he has a problem will not count social media interaction with friends as a help. He will just proceed on his addiction and will ignore social media helps by his friends unless they'll go to his house every other day to talk about his gambling problem. It's hard, every is hard and stressful these days because of this non-stop pandemic.
Let's just cheer those addicted gamblers who are doing their best to quit their addiction.
Yes and the problem is that it is not getting that much better, even if the vaccines are finally available and the cases and the deaths for covid19 are going down the virus is still there infecting people and this means many people still have to be away from their families increasing with each passing day the chances that they do something wrong and their family is not going to be there to call them out or to help them fix it, and the longer this is the case the more difficult it is to recover.