How many of you have permanently deleted their social media accounts ? What improvements have you noticed ever since ?
While leaving social media was the greatest thing I have done, it also made me more isolated than ever. I also believe that social media shapes people in a way that makes them really hard to deal with in real life.
It gives them the illusion of unlimited attention and opportunities when it comes to relationships, acting like careless creatures in real life, or on the contrary, makes them bitter and resentful. Forming strong, meaningful long term relationships has never been harder, and I'm not only talking about love (this is probably the worst case), but friendships as well...
The way social media works and how people use them brings so much harm to human relationships.
I'm curious to know Zig Forums's opinion on this matter ?
Deleted my kikebook years ago, along with quiting Marijuana. One of the best decisions I've ever made!
Carter Gray
You can still get away with just having an e-mail account. I was thinking more of facebook, instagram, snapchat, what have you.
Adrian Reyes
yeah everyone has an account on these faggot little websites, they were around since I was a kid. I still have one acc but thats the only one I ever had. i just like the option to message old friends of mine, even thoigh i never do
Nowadays everyone has multiple accs on different faggot websites... i think the premise is fine actually- i think the problem we notice on social media is linked to it, but the entire thing is much, much deeper
I would say that it's more a symptom of a lack of community due to leftism's ironic tendency to isolate people out of fear lol. Very ironic. Now the internet is preferable to real life for a lot of people - there is no police, no love to get hurt with, u know? There is nobody who will attack you, no way to get hurt and whatnot.
What we're facing is actually a divide of society based on peoples' personal fears, because for a long time we have been played against each other to see other races and people as our enemies - but really the enemy is the fear that you are insignificant Those defeated by the enemy accept their insignificance and live their lives in the digital world where they can't be 'hurt'
Jackson Ramirez
Had a facebook for less than a month after myspace. Never had a tumblr. Never had a twitter. Never had an instagram.
Andrew Campbell
>quiting Marijuana
This is great. I see so little people pointing out the harms of marijuana these days. It's all about making excuse for their terrible behaviors. Marijuana gained so much popularity even on this board.
Eli Carter
Ur right
Hunter Taylor
I never signed up on any social media in the first place.
I'm not missing out, it's just for empty people to try and make their life look amazingly fun to other.
Dominic Turner
I'm banned from most social media. I'm also banned from most internet forums. I take that as a sign that I'm right about damn near everything.
Cooper Russell
I deleted social media but it made no difference because I am what is considered a loner/recluse. The only purpose I have for social media is to stalk others, not to communicate or share my life. It must be hard for anyone under 21 to delete social media, since it is so ubiquitous in this day and age; for women even harder, since they are addicted to the constant dopamine activity it provides from the non-stop attention.
Nathan Sanchez
>You can still get away with just having an e-mail account No one does business cards anymore. Your profile on those sites is your identity.
> It's just for empty people to try and make their life look amazingly fun to other.
Yes but you are not understanding how "standard" social media is especially for the younger generation of people. Depending on your age, you are part of a very rare club if you lack an active social media account.
Jayden Powell
>People with social active lives under the age of 25 (and especially under 21) are almost required to have social media accounts
You have a point. I used to be very socially active in my early twenties. It was all about sharing pictures of parties on snapchat/instagram stories, Facebook message groups and so on. As I decided to get my life together and focus on my education, my social life also fell appart. No need to say that when I deleted all my social media accounts, I came to a point of almost zero interactions. It was interesting and also soul crushing as I slowly realized that no one really was my friend to begin with.
Ryan Hernandez
Well sure, if you are on them to begin with. No one is going to refuse to hire you because you don't use Facebook or have an instagram account.
Aaron Roberts
>No one is going to refuse to hire you because you don't use Facebook or have an instagram account. In this brave new homo-globo world? It is a necessity.
Cameron Sanchez
I am not surprised.
It isn't normal to have "500" friends as a human being. Social media seems to replace real friendship for many shallow friendships: People who you maybe meet once or twice in the hallway at school. They may even leave you likes and comments on your photos, but if you disappeared tomorrow none of them would notice.
Ethan Anderson
I'm an introvert but I used to have a Facebook. What was the point? I was just reading about what other people were doing and I didn't actually care what they were doing. Only social media I use now is Zig Forums and Twitter briefly. I just use Twitter as a news source. You can follow companies and shit for updates.
Daniel Gomez
Data mining bread. All fields.
Easton Lopez
Exactly same boat as you, deleting Facebook was an excellent decision but definitely had the side effect of isolation.
Jordan Nguyen
You guys talk about how people post fake positive stuff but also, nobody leftists love sitting on it and yelling at everybody to do what they want them to.
There is give and take with staying on it, or leaving it. You may lose touch with people, but it is very nice not seeing what other people are doing constantly. It really frees up one's mind to focus on yourself, which then creates peace of mind, something I think many people lack. Also, scoial media exists mainly to track and build a profile to be monitored by Big Brother. If that doesn't bother you and you truly, deep down actually give a shit about what other people are doing, then by all means stay on it. My advice, it is like trying to quit a drug though, can't just do it overnight, so have some willpower!
Jason Richardson
Does Twitch count? I'm finding myself avoiding tons of old friends because everyone is trying to become e-famous
Anthony Flores
>if you disappeared tomorrow none of them would notice
Yes that is literally what happened for the remaining "friends" I had.
>for women even harder, since they are addicted to the constant dopamine activity it provides from the non-stop attention
This is another issue, the attitude of the average woman on social media is so off putting and it translate in real life. Men aren't as good either, scrolling on e-girls on instagram while being bitter about it, I knew some of them.
Alexander Reed
>isolation
Meaning what? Loneliness? I'm not your average person so it always confuses me when people say they're lonely. I enjoy being alone. If the world was a better place then maybe people wouldn't be so alone but it isn't. It's a diverse shithole. People have less and less in common over time.
Jose Watson
I had a Kikebook Page once, deleted it about 8 years ago, don’t use any social media and don’t even carry a cell phone. Life is much better this way.
Eli Davis
Right? I used to be lonely, then over time realized nearly every asshole out there cares more about whether you are just like them, then gets offended and mad and ghosts you after realizing you have different opinions. Almost nobody is capable of letting other people just be who they are. I don't want them around then.
Josiah Ramirez
Honestly ditching video games and anything related came way before deciding to delete my social media. This is to me the dumbest way to spend your time, while you could be improving your life and yourself is so many ways. The Twitch/video games community is filled with broken people, especially streamers, the sooner you realize it, the better.
You're describing a normalfag. Instead of trying to understand you, they just want you to be like them. On the plus side, normalfags suffer the most in life as they get older. They realise they're not important and they also fear death because they're idiots.
Luis Fisher
Don't get me wrong, I also find solace in solitude, but it's damn important to have meaningful connections with people, and that is the problem today, this is nearly impossible. While I enjoy my solitude, I can't help to ask myself if this is not a bit of cope.
Hunter Morales
Zig Forums is also a social media
Parker Roberts
Deleted mine when I was 20, I'm 28 now. Nothing changed too much, just had my close friends and family call/text me instead of sending me a messages on social media.
Besides all that it can be isolating not having social media and there are times where people ridicule me for not having a social media.
Ryan Ward
You're not even allowed to shitpost on the internet for the most part outside of the chans anymore. The only reason pewdiepie got away with saying nigger was because he was so big that if jewtube banned him it would cause a shitstorm. The age of fun is ogre the age of SJW nanny state is now
Sebastian Walker
>While I enjoy my solitude, I can't help to ask myself if this is not a bit of cope.
I ask myself this all the time. Do I enjoy being alone or is it sour grapes? Then I realise it doesn't matter. If I've eaten the sour grapes so long that they start to taste sweet, it doesn't matter. Loneliness is an acquired taste, it seems.
Anthony Peterson
For some of us, vidya is the only thing we have in life...
