6 Months Hiatus from Socials

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I have been meaning to do an experimental 6 month hiatus from all social media for some time.

I have tried to isolate what I hate the most and what I love the most about Social Media such as Facebook and Instagram that would drive me to depart.

What I love:

  • ability to find and connect to friends and family
  • ability to update everyone so easily
  • ease of use to upload photos, videos, content
  • easy to look up profiles of people in my circles to see if they would be worth connecting with

What I hate:

  • advertising - no paid add-free model
  • the infinite scroll - there is no end - content keeps coming
  • wading through the same mundane and un-extraordinary jokes and low level humor again and again
  • the algorithm - no way to limit content I see to just what I subscribe to or search for manually
  • the addiction - the urge to pick up and fill the void at every pause in life - very difficult to keep it cut down without cutting it out entirely