I’m going to piggyback this post on the one I wrote a while back about social media not just affecting girls or young people negatively but everybody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I gave up on Twitter in January or February of 2020. I rarely used it an was mostly disgusted by what I saw of it. Facebook on the other hand was a different story. I’d made noise about dumping Facebook at that time too but always found a reason to return. Facebook is a good way of connecting with people. It’s also a great way to burn bridges and ruin friendships when the inevitable political disagreements arise. Sitting at a computer, typing responses to posts made by other people with whom you disagree is like having the coprolalia portion Tourette syndrome.<\/a> The other choice is to swallow the bitterness and bile to keep from alienating people who are at least nominal friends. The result from either response is not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was mid-March of this year when the combination of negative responses and swallowed responses got to be too much and I had a small mental and emotional break. It was also at that time when I finally (mostly) gave up on Facebook. I didn’t completely delete my account (it would take too much work to restore it should I find reason to return) but I suspended it. I can honestly say that my mental and emotional health has improved significantly as a result. Oh, I still have accounts with several social media outlets but I never use any save YouTube and that’s assuming YouTube is considered social media. I even have Instagram but I’ve used that maybe half a dozen times ever. I can say that ditching social media was one of the best things I’ve ever done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m going to piggyback this post on the one I wrote a while back about social media not just affecting girls or young people negatively but everybody. I gave up on Twitter in January or February of 2020. I rarely used it an was mostly disgusted by what I saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}