| >Personally, I think the idea of completely cutting off from social media isn't something that most people can (or even should) do Incoming anecdotes... I'm not so sure. I think the only solution is total cut-off. Remember that the goal of social media is to get you hopelessly addicted and to give away as much information as possible so that THEY can make vast sums of money off your content. They employ thousands of brilliant minds who's sole job is to break down your will power with dark patterns and deep psychological tricks to keep you clicking and scrolling. No one posts their fuckups, or their bad side, or the boring stuff like doing the ironing or cutting the grass or being stuck in traffic: the normal, everyday things. All you see is edited highlights. You only see aspirational things that most people will never achieve. That they haven't even achieved. In fact, I know a guy, a model, who has shunned social media now but still has friends on there who constantly lie and do stuff like buy a bunch of Calvin Klein clothes and pay for their own photoshoot with them wearing it saying things like "Big thanks to Calvin Klein for the gear" etc. It's utter bullshit from one end to the other. It's an addiction we have as a nation and the cure is abstinence. Edit: used the word "stuff" a bit much :) |
Obviously this depends wildly on each person's individual situation, but I haven't found that it seriously affects the relationships I care about. I no longer know the minor details about the lives of acquaintances from college or high school, but so what?