friendship wrote: I deleted Facebook a few years ago, never looked back and never regretted it. In January I decided to stop posting/reading Twitter and I think it had a genuinely positive impact on my anxiety and stress too; I started reading it again in February and guess what, I started feeling like shit again. I'm going to be deleting it permanently.
IG still seems safe, I only follow some friends and as long as I don't look at the Discover tab I won't be transfixed by buxom cosplayers and high schooler memes that inexplicably litter the place.
Yes! Facebook is a FOMO virus, rubbing your nose in what you are being excluded from or rubbing your nose in the BS that you avoid in "real life".
And of course the internet tends towards the "bathroom graffiti" syndrome where anonymity brings out the worst, cancerous thoughts of some.
"Social media" often seems more like "anti-social media".
It trains people to rabidly seek hits and likes and it conditions people to the idea that "access to the world" is necessary 24/7.
But what that really means is 24/7 access to your brain and activities and movements so for to sell consumption.