I Quit Social Media For Good

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• BR

  @briggs5534 · 3 years ago

  "i don;t have to set myself on fire to keep other people warm."  wins the Sensible-Piece-of-Advice Award for the Year!  Bless you, Lady C!

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• TY

  @tyler-edic · 3 years ago

  Best post-social media interaction: I ran into a high school acquaintance and he said "whats your IG?" I dont have one. "do you have Facebook?" Nope. "How should I keep up with you?" I just said: "Well, hopefully I'll run into you around town again!" If it was someone I'd actually want to keep up with I'd have just given him my phone number.

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• CH

  @ChrisBrooks34 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I have recently come to the idea that what people need is to keep journals again. Social media isn't really a journal, or at the least it's not a good one. What many of us need is to be with ourselves and our thoughts. We can write down our hot takes and come back to those in a year's time (maybe longer) and say wow that was really stupid/ridiculous; I'm glad no one other than me has seen this. Not every thought needs an audience

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• MG

  @MG20024 · 10 months ago

  Social media is a waste of time and damaging in many ways.

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• EN

  @endezeichengrimm · 3 years ago

  Social media also gets people to hate each other for no reason.

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• MI

  @mijadelsol · 3 years ago (edited)

  The thing that I find most disturbing is the feeling that everyone is trying to sell themselves online. This is also what I have been coached to as a beauty professional is to basically use my life and my personality to sell people on my business . The movement towards authenticity online is also a marketing funnel . There is something tainted about the whole thing.

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• MI

  @michaelmccafferty1706 · 3 years ago

  The comparison to drinking is spot on. I quit all social media a few years ago. I lost 90% of my acquaintances, but none of my actual friends. The improvement to one's mental health and well being will be very real. I wish you the best with your career and your studies.

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• DJ

  @dj_bubbs-TXQ · 2 years ago (edited)

  I completely agree with everything you said.<br><br>It’s been 22 months since I left social media. I have no regrets at all.<br><br>I got sick of people gossiping, drama, negativity &amp; people faking their lives &amp; friendships and sharing everything that should be private or craving attention with provocative pictures &amp; selfies.<br><br>A number of things I realised:<br><br>1. People who added me as “Friends” didn’t really care about me. They were “So called Friends” <br><br>2. When I was going through my hardest times, including anxiety, upset, trauma and stress, &nbsp;Nobody was REALLY there for me or reached out to me.<br><br>3. Certain posts or videos get blown out of proportion or completely taken out of context even if it’s nothing negative.<br><br>4. People lie about the amount of friends they REALLY have. Who in the REAL world has 100s or 1000s of friends WHO??<br><br>5. Communication is very one sided. The same person had to make the first move to start a conversation as the other person doesn’t make an effort themselves or can’t be bothered. <br><br>6. People lie about their lives, they only show the positive side of theirs lives which doesn’t show the real truth about the person. You can’t tell and don’t see if someone is REALLY depressed, upset, isolated, &nbsp;lonely, feeling suicidal or what’s actually going on in their actual lives. Even if people post how they really feel, people don’t always care.<br><br>7. It makes people fake and insecure. <br><br>8. People compare themselves to others just to get more “likes” &amp; comments.<br><br>9. Social media has increased loneliness, isolation. Anxiety and depression which can be severe.<br><br>10. Due to social media and the increase in technology, it’s causing destruction &amp; destroying peoples lives in the sense of their is no sense of unity, community, love and nobody wants to help each other. If they see someone doing something constructive and productive and they’re doing well, people will laugh at them in an act of ignorance, and cannot wait for them to fall down.<br><br>11. Having a proper conversation or being real is considered not normal and people think it’s creepy. People don’t like having real conversations<br><br>12. It’s made people to be narcissists &amp; self entitlement &amp; ignorant, prejudice and bullies.<br><br>13. People can say things or make comments that are abusive, racist, sexist, ignorant, prejudice, misogynist, homophobia, xenophobia, discrimination openly online, rather than to your face. <br><br>14. I have seen Boys &amp; Girls take provocative, selfies / pictures to get attention from so called friends / strangers, sometimes in a negative way, for example, woman having their chests hanging out, body image, men &amp; women showing off muscles, six pack &amp; more. <br><br>15. With social media &amp; the young generation with regards to &nbsp;friendships, people feel that if they add someone as friend request and they accept it, they automatically think that’s “friends for life” people need to realise that’s not how friendship really works.<br><br>I never had TikTok, Twitter or Instagram. Glad I didn’t sign up to any of them. Facebook was the only social media platform I had and it was recommended to me back when I was in my 20s.<br><br>I only use YouTube as I can look at interesting things like cooking recipes and motivation videos and music videos of festivals &amp; concerts and more fun stuff.<br><br>I enjoy going out in nature, going for walks, bowling listening to music and learning new hobbies and watching movies.<br><br>Since leaving it’s been the best decision of my life. I enjoy life more, I can now enjoy doing the things I do or want to try without being judged or told what to do &nbsp;without being made to feel guilty.<br><br>I feel more happier and a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders.<br><br>I think if social media disappeared forever, I can guarantee people will spend real quality time with friends and family. People will know who their real friends are and that they will do things together and have a good time doing it. I also feel that people will have proper conversations.

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• AS

  @ashleymcgee3536 · 3 years ago

  &quot;I cannot set myself on fire to keep other people warm.&quot;<br><br>This. All of this.

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• MA

  @macsarcule · 2 years ago

  I read something recently that really connected and this video reminded me: “Not everyone has access to me because I want peace more than attention.” 💜

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• DA

  @DavidBarronHypnotist · 3 years ago

  Spot On! <br>I tell people &quot;I&apos;ve aged out of social media&quot;.

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• SH

  @shannonnorfolk9536 · 3 years ago

  I quit social media too, now I just spend 4 hours a day on youtube

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