11 People Share The Honest Reason They Left Social Media For Good
“To stop the involuntary habit of comparing other people’s good times with my hard times.” — [deleted]
“I noticed that I would take photos whenever I went out just to be like, ‘Hey! Look, I have a life too!’ and I wasn’t really enjoying myself always waiting for a perfect photo op. They also took up a lot of time and I was sick of drama caused by them.” — [deleted]
“I discovered that FB is one eternal, awkward Thanksgiving dinner with relatives and friends saying horribly racist or sexist things while I had to decide, after each comment, ‘Is this the statement where I speak up and ruin Thanksgiving?'” — Searre
“It was contributing to my depression. Reading an endless stream of doom and gloom news stories mixed with bragging posts from friends I no longer speak to and relatives I don’t particularly like only made me bitter, angry, and sad. The only messages I got from relatives had a ‘can you do this big favor for me’ at the end. Eventually I just decided ‘fuck this’ and deleted my account permanently. I figured that anyone who really cares about me can find other ways to contact me. I’ve felt a significant improvement to my mental health since leaving.” — [deleted]
“Everyone from my high school got pregnant and I kept seeing hundreds of pictures of babies when I logged on.” — AndyJCohen
“I got tired of people knowing a lot about me. I just wanted to disappear. I just started wanting to do things on my own without anyone questioning it.” — PM_ME_ANY_MUSIC
“I stopped using Facebook for two reasons. First of all, I have low self esteem, so yes, I am the problem, not Facebook. When you combine low self esteem and Facebook which is basically, ‘Hey! Look what I’m doing, my life’s better than yours!’ it doesn’t end well for your mental health. It constantly makes you compare yourself with other people’s lives (which are all glamorous on social media) Secondly, as harsh as it might sound, I simply don’t care about 90% of the people on there, I mean if I was to find out a very close friend was getting married via facebook before him telling me I’d be pretty pissed off. I still use messenger as I enjoy talking to people, but I don’t care about their (for the most part) fake lives.” — EzioAuditore8
“I don’t like FB’s privacy policy, so I deleted my account. SO did the same thing, we really don’t miss it – and not having to respond to the messages and invitations all the time is quite nice. We continue to see our friends in person. We don’t use any apps owned by FB so that means Insta and Whatsapp are out, too.” — sewballet
“I don’t like plastering pictures of myself online for potential employers to see, and for people to ridicule.” — ArtificialExistannce
“I’m an introvert and got sick of seeing fake people online, never been happier.” — daddy_ocean
“Idiots. Idiots everywhere, and not the fun ones.” — ParanoidYuppie